Whirly Quotes & Sayings

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. — Diane Lane

Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man
Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;)
To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can,
(Whereby great profit vnto thee ensuth;)
Reade Bookes, hate Ignorance; (the Foe to Art,
The Damme of Errour, Enuy of the hart). — Richard Barnfield

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
[author's dedication] — Agatha Christie

In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

They gave death with impunity as they followed a war-maddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood. — Bernard Cornwell

IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth - so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small 'Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale's right ear, so as to be out of harm's way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, 'I'm hungry.' And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, 'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man? — Rudyard Kipling

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature. — Monica Bellucci

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first. — Simon Sinek

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks. — Kelly Reilly

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future. — Lee Ezell

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles. — Mahan Esfahani

Even the man whom we think we know best . . . is at bottom a stranger to us. He is different. The most we can do, and the best, is to have at least some inkling of his otherness, to respect it, and to guard against the outrageous stupidity of wishing to interpret it (1928, p. 220-221). — Anonymous

She's my fantasy come to life. A dream come true. — K. Webster