When The Penny Drops Quotes & Sayings

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian. — Mahatma Gandhi

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. — Chet Atkins

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Once again, the penny drops. Damn, there's been an awful lot of penny-dropping, and metaphorically, it's sending me broke. — Kat T. Masen

There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is always empty. Finally, the penny drops: what the worker is stealing are the wheelbarrows themselves ... — Slavoj Zizek

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. — Joshua Becker

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. — Bill Vaughan

I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that. — Elisha Cuthbert

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago. — Franz Kafka

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence. — Charles Dickens

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? — Charles De Lint

A watered down gospel is no gospel at all — David Wilkerson

Rules are for the stupid, the clueless, those who cannot be trusted to do the right thing. — Jared Dillian

Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained. — Marcus Aurelius

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through ... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player." — Rainn Wilson

Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives. — Carol Bly

I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain! — Sean Bean

Monitor your self-talk, that internal dialogue of what you are telling yourself every day. — Tom Benfield