Trees Where Lemurs Quotes & Sayings

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. — Pablo Picasso

I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine. — Elizabeth Perkins

Iko was beginning to comprehend why humans curled into the fetal position when they were afraid. — Marissa Meyer

That boy skates close to the edge, he always has. He's utterly fearless and that's how he's made his reputation. But the rabbit is never more than two jumps ahead of the coyote . . — Robert A. Heinlein

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. — Oscar Wilde

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such. — Nevill Drury

Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance. — William James

I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being. — Mother Teresa

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. — Albert Camus

I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to make the movie, I don't think about any of that. I think about certain aspects like who's making the movie and who's gonna tell a story that I wanna be involved in, but I don't have that choice and I never have. — Alex Pettyfer

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — Andy Hargreaves

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. — Joseph Conrad

Failure leads to improve and success leads to change — A2KDON

To plot is to live. [ ... ] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292) — Don DeLillo