Wind Rises Caproni Quotes & Sayings

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him
this is all! — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

We have two main objectives in this universe: First is to have fun; second is to try find a way to protect our existence so that we can continue to have fun! These two objectives must be pursued simultaneously! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' — Anna Deavere Smith

The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends. — Kimbra

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have. — John Templeton

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,
but what I reject is more numerous,
denser, more demanding than before.
A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss. — Wislawa Szymborska

When we hang up, I sigh long and look out the window to the darkness over the ocean, no delineation between water and sky. It's always disorienting when I speak to my mother, that pull of her voice back into our old life even though both of us have tried to move beyond it.

In her soft Caribbean accent I hear my brother's laughter, see us both as children playing together in the backyard when it was still covered in crunch green grass and our toys were new.

Mami's voice was the song of our home, even with no father, even as we lived with that black mass of the unspoken, even with the marks on our bones we didn't know we carried.

Through all life's uncertainty, we felt anchored by the love in her voice. — Patricia Engel

One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process. — Sophie Hannah

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. — Mark Mothersbaugh

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. — Vince Lombardi

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero. — Clive Owen

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. — Orson Scott Card

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy. — Alexandra Roach

She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles ... Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none. — Jan Struther