Valencies Table Quotes & Sayings

Smelling Eddie on Eddie was disturbing enough. Smelling Eddie on me was too much of a good thing. — Kristen Ashley

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars. — Lisi Harrison

Do what feels right to you, in whatever circumstance you find yourself in, even if it seems improbable or even impossible. And have faith. Everything else will follow. — Virginia Boecker

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me. — Jay Griffiths

People you meet on your journey may not give you direct answers, but listen and observe. Everyone on your path presents a lesson for you. — Sheila Burke

My plans were put aside by the prospect of her return. Then she returned, to say that she had other plans. — Dan Adams

The eyes of the creative spirit can see in all directions. — Orna Ross

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. — Patti Smith

And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever. — Edmond Rostand

[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that every kind of atom can form a definite small number of such links: that these can be single, double or triple: that the groups may take up any position possible by rotation round the line of a single but not round that of a double link: finally that with all the elements of the first short period [of the periodic table], and with many others as well, the angles between the valencies are approximately those formed by joining the centre of a regular tetrahedron to its angular points. No assumption whatever is made as to the mechanism of the linkage. Through the whole development of organic chemistry this theory has always proved capable of providing a different structure for every different compound that can be isolated. Among the hundreds of thousands of known substances, there are never more isomeric forms than the theory permits. — Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan