Willetta Teacups Quotes & Sayings

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. — Mark Twain

Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of jealousy but out of respect and focus your efforts not on replicating others' portfolios but on looking for opportunities where they are not. The only way for investors to significantly outperform is to periodically stand far apart from the crowd, something few are willing, or able, to do. — Seth Klarman

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive. — Jorgen Leth

When you have moments on your own or spaces in your time, just focus on the well at the root of your soul. Imagine that nourishing stream of belonging, ease, peace, and delight. Feel, with your visual imagination, the refreshing waters of that well gradually flowing up through the arid earth of the neglected side of your heart. It is helpful to imagine this particularly before you sleep. Then during the night you will be in a constant flow of enrichment and belonging. You will find that when you awake at dawn, there will be a lovely, quiet happiness in your spirit. One — John O'Donohue

Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind - the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in. — Italo Calvino

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind. — Howard Thurman

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead. — Lynne Tillman

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy. — Russell Hornsby

If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know. — Margaret Atwood

constructive criticism is "good notes." A good note says what is wrong, what is missing, what isn't clear, what makes no sense. — Ed Catmull

We are all just side effects. — John Green