Toggled E416 50310 Quotes & Sayings

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study. — Ada Yonath

The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the devil's harpstrings being plucked. Then there was the arrow sound, the sigh of air over feathers, but multiplied, so that it was like the rushing of a wind. That sound diminished as two clouds of arrows, thick as any flock of starlings, climbed into the gray sky. Hook, reaching for another broadhead, marveled at the sight of five thousand arrows in two sky-shadowing groups. The two storms seemed to hover for a heart's beat at the height of their trajectory, and then the missiles fell. It was Saint Crispin's Day in Picardy. For an instant there was silence. Then the arrows struck. It was the sound of steel on steel. A clatter, like Satan's hailstorm. — Bernard Cornwell

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes." - Irish Saying — Cedric Kelly

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality. — Neville Goddard

IN OUR CELLS
They keep us in our cells
For a long time ...
And, if we get out,
We lug them with us on our shoulders,
Like a porter with a chest of goods. — Visar Zhiti

You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull. — MaryJanice Davidson

Love was lazy as hell. Love laid around in bed, warm from the sheets and the sunlight pouring into the room. Love was too lazy to get up to close the blinds. Love was too comfortable to get up and go pee. Love took too many naps, it watched TV, but not really, because it was too busy kissing and napping. Love was also funny, which somehow made the bed more comfortable, the laughter warming the sheets, softening the mattress and the lovers' skin. — Adi Alsaid

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find. — Edward Hirsch

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not. — Giorgio Moroder

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. — Rebecca MacKinnon

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me. — James Herriot

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Happiness is the ultimate goal ... The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow. — Deepak Chopra