Untilled Soil Quotes & Sayings

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran

My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favorite song that you knew by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a television show you watched for years. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can't rest until I know the answers. — Cecelia Ahern

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness. — Tyler Perry

tamales with rice and beans - and — Kasie West

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well. — Nik Wallenda

Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope. — Narendra Modi

Through embrace we flow.Wanting,Longing for happiness to flow — Richard Allen Whisenant

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life. — Nigel Cole

kindness was such an important quality in a person, the most important quality — Jane Lythell

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way,
come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost. — Stephen Crane

His words stayed with her for years. Each night as she lay waiting for sleep, she tried to re-create the evening in her mind - the tone of his voice, his hand on her shoulder. Soon the memory was worn as an old photograph, the edges fuzzy from frequent handling; she worried that she'd gotten the words wrong, forgotten some nuance of his face or voice. Finally she wondered if she'd made the whole thing up. — Jennifer Haigh

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa Of Avila

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed. — Lloyd Alexander