Vernise Bolden Quotes & Sayings

Good writing just isn't that common. — Eric Flint

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson

Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party. — Tess Gerritsen

Like unto ships far off at sea, Outward or homeward bound, are we. Before, behind, and all around, Floats and swings the horizons bound, Seems at its distant rim to rise And climb the crystal wall of the skies, And then again to turn and sink, As if we could slide from its outer brink. Ah! it is not the sea, It is not the sea that sinks and shelves, But ourselves That rock and rise With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well. — Rick Riordan

My teachers used to call me a failure — Tony Blair

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf — Susana Fortes

Dr. Arnold ... the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings. — Bertrand Russell

I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and carbon from the air. And if we don't do that we are looking at some range of catastrophe. — Margaret D. Klein

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. — Laurence J. Peter

We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it. — Gackt

Mindfulness isn't inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn't inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that's innate in all human beings. — Shamash Alidina

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. — John Lasseter