The Thousandfold Thought Quotes & Sayings

The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. — Jack LaLanne

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born. — Heather Brooke

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life. — Bruno Bettelheim

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs. — Christiane Collange

You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there. — Steven Seagal

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955. — James Gleick

How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were supposed to be asleep! Was it because we were only permitted to catch a fleeting glimpse of those great bodies and then only in the mysterious time of a dream world, those great bodies about which man had only the slightest knowledge but perhaps one day would be permitted to examine more closely? Or was it permitted for the great majority of people to gaze at the starry firmament only in brief, sleepless moments so that the splendor wouldn't become mundane, so that the greatness wouldn't be diminished? — Adalbert Stifter

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. — Jolene Purdy

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You've done the time but wonder if it's going to satisfy the judge. — Shandy L. Kurth

You were chased here by darkness.
Listen to the curve of the hills, the guttering voice.
The way to anywhere leads through humiliation.
There are only animal trails. — Tim Lilburn

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. — Sojourner Truth

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. — R. Scott Bakker

It's amazing how much punishment we can take. — Philip Roth

I wondered who's world had just fallen apart as mine came together. I wondered who the person was that loved the donor most. I wondered who it was that had me feeling an insurmountable heap of guilt simply for needing the transplant and then living through it. I wondered who I owed my life to. — J.L. Mac

The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals ... beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions. — Rainer Maria Rilke