Vanishings History Quotes & Sayings

We should never finish a 20 year program in two year. — Jack Ma

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses. — Georgia Salpa

It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and the only place where the same feeling exists now is here, in the city, millions of people all breathing the same air. This, here, now, is more utopia than utopia, more than your pretty little house out in the middle of the forest with only woodchucks for neighbors. Can't you see? All of we kids are here, almost all of the kids from Arcadia, are here in the city. We've gone urban because we're all looking for what we lost. This is the only place that approximates it. The closeness. The connection. — Lauren Groff

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates
hence the deadly frost
the free power of the mind
the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more
the person is alone, like a baleful power
as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually
and in accordance with his own principle he is
misanthropic and misotheos. — Novalis

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself. — Chinua Achebe

For battle, the new boy looked like an overcooked sausage — George R R Martin

A drummer is usually like the backbone. — Brody Armstrong

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. — Richard Owen

People talk and rumors follow," I said.
"Most people claim that only a person possessed of the devil could write such horror."
"And what do you think?"
"You are an angel to me, Eddy, but never bet the devil your head."
"That would make a great title for a story," I observed. — Andrew Barger

You might change the props
and the actors, the play of human history is always the same — Orson Scott Card

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! — Marilyn Monroe

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic
resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important. — Cary Fowler

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us. — A. Dean Byrd

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand. — Gabrielle Union

Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn't have seen. — Anne Rice