Whooomph Quotes & Sayings

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. — Ilya Ilf

The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not. — Joseph Campbell

Boots, bushes, gardens, storefronts, buildings, streets, and stars. Why, she would have had to re-create the globe for them. But the best they got was fish. And the Boy loved them. — Josh Malerman

She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit room, a tiny golden beacon. For a moment, Oma Kristel held it aloft, then the unthinkable happened. The match slipped out of her fingers and fell straight onto her pink mohair bosom. With a whooomph! like the sounds of a gas furnace firing up, the hairspray with which Oma Kristel had doused herself ignited, obliterating her in a column of flames. — Helen Grant

I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture. — Storm Saulter

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates ... The rivalry between the two statesmen piqued the curiosity of American Jennie Jerome, admired beauty and the mother of Winston Churchill. Ms. Jerome arranged to dine with Gladstone and then with Disraeli, on consecutive evenings. Afterward, she described the difference between the two men this way: "When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli, I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman. — Marian Deegan

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin. — George Orwell

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. — Dalai Lama

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. — Mary Garden

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. — Diana Wynne Jones

As an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave. — Darnell Lamont Walker

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil. — Ricky Martin

In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction. — Dan Brown