The Alchemist And The Angel Quotes & Sayings

While Cabinets of Curiosities were intended to be microcosms of the world, and to symbolise a ruler's all-powerful control of his realm, Rudolf's came to mean much more than that. It become his refuge from personal and political turmoil, a private universe he could control. — Joanne Owen

Death continues to stalk the streets, stealing the souls of our children as they sleep. We're running out of fingers to close their eyes, voices to bless their souls, hands to dig their graves. Poisonous fumes from their unburied bodies contaminate the alleys, and the ghosts of those who have been buried rise nightly. Their tiny forms dance above their tombstones, an agonising reminder that we've failed them. — Joanne Owen

But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of change and opportunity, trickery and wonder. A story inspired by a city and its legends. — Joanne Owen

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them. — Amy Sedaris

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times. — Jason Wu

Don't you think company is more precious than all these objects? — Joanne Owen

I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car. — Emma Daley

Along with astronomy and alchemy, collecting was what made Rudolf happy. He mistrusted people. He could hear them now. Whispering voices. Murmuring in the walls. Rustling through leaves. He heard them everywhere he went. Everywhere, that is, except within the confines of his private chambers. Here the voices fell silent. He felt comfortable surrounded by his curiosities, for objects can't answer back. Objects can't betray. — Joanne Owen

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. — Georgia Jagger

Next time I see you, I'll tell you everything, she promised. — Joanne Owen

This three-dimensional froth even produces tunnels and wormlike tubes commonly depicted in embedding diagrams for quantum froth. The connecting bridges in the foam correspond to wormholes between different universes or between different places in the same universe. — Clifford A. Pickover

Curiosity breeds discovery. — Joanne Owen

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. — Calvin Trillin

They spent their days together and their nights dreaming of one another. — Joanne Owen

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile. — Ellen Glasgow

She believed in me. Where I had doubt and fear, she had faith. — Joanne Owen

Human beings are born of blood, bound by gravity, eventually to perish... fallible by design... destined. — Neil Charles

Love does not make cowards. It creates heroes. — Dan Skinner

Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air, and the yolk at the core is fire. The core of the egg preserves life and being, and therefore represents heaven and earth, while the white represents chaos. — Joanne Owen

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. — Barbara De Angelis

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer. — Mike Birbiglia

Do you believe people can change their fate, or do you think our lives are mapped out before us? I mean, do you think we're each doomed to die a certain death? — Joanne Owen

Jan knew it was pointless to ponder the rights and wrongs of Greta's decision, for the decision had been made and they were on their way to a foreign city. He would just have to make the best of things, for all their sakes. He tried to turn his attention to more practical matters, ... — Joanne Owen

A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear. — Joanne Owen

No need for apologies. ... it's good to question things, but you must have faith too. — Joanne Owen

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog. — Lara Giddings

The evening sky was sprinkled with stars ... — Joanne Owen

It's unwise to let rage get the better of you. And you shouldn't hinge everything on whether you'll get to see the Emperor. Being obsessed with one thing like that has made him a sad, lonely man. — Joanne Owen

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play. — Mark Williams

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The true meaning of our philosophy will be unintelligible to the arrogant, the boastful and the mocking. Beware of those who exhibit such traits. — Joanne Owen