Verres De Terre Quotes & Sayings

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one. — Charles De Lint

Fruit ... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!" — Dylan Moran

Stockdale, a lonely young fellow, who had for weeks felt a great craving for somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness, was not sorry to join her ... — Thomas Hardy

If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, — Mira Grant

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist. — Birdy

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Telling someone to "follow their passion" is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst. — Cal Newport

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive — Dylan Moran

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch fr warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by the thousands; a houseless rejected creature. — Charles Dickens

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. — Ambrose Bierce

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key. — Sergey Brin

I bear a burden that might well try
Men that do all by rule,
And what can I
That am a wandering-witted fool
But pray to God that He ease
My great responsibilities? — William Butler Yeats

Sii la mia schiava d'amore," I purr.
Her expression is guarded. "What did you say?"
An amused smile pulls at my lips. "I'll never tell." Somehow, I don't think she'd agree to be my love slave anyway. — Lisa Desrochers

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. — George Woodcock