Windowpane Flounder Quotes & Sayings

If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure. — Henry Cavill

Apparently food encourages not only fat cells, but thinking - two things models seem to be missing. — Katie Kacvinsky

Children of the night?' 'Believe me, they're down — Simon Clark

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. — Isaac Asimov

You can't force someone to love you, especially when you're incapable of loving them in return. — Micalea Smeltzer

To be popular I must be mediocre. — Oscar Wilde

I find a job; I go back to being me. I don't remember my dreams anymore. — Tarryn Fisher

We looked at each other in the half-light, searching for words that didn't exist. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us. — Jim Gaffigan

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow — Thomas Bray

I imagine that she's looking at the stars and thinking about how small and insignificant we are down here. We're little ants on a pebble, hurtling through space. — Albert Borris

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world. — Jeremy Northam

To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand" - to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast. — Jane Hirshfield