Walsingham Academy Quotes & Sayings

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture. — Shirley Manson

She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable. — Vincent Van Gogh

He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly coloring the air. — Vladimir Nabokov

Some of the traits that make you a great entrepreneur also work against you. Examining data of high-scoring people, we find that oftentimes the world frustrates them: They're super-smart, they're super-capable, and the work quality of their peers is vastly inferior to what they can achieve on their own. — Adeo Ressi

From the stereo came music that Alice didn't recognize, but it wasn't there to be listened to, just to complete a perfect scenario; there was nothing casual about it. — Paolo Giordano

They were probably hitting the town. I hoped it was hitting them back. — Lemony Snicket

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace? — Vanna Bonta

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to. — Conor Oberst

The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys. — Daniel H. Pink

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels. — Emeril Lagasse

When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation. — Mark Batterson