Winglike Appendages Quotes & Sayings

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love. — Luigina Sgarro

Why regret that I lived miserably Yesterday. Rather, Why not commit and resolve to live happily today. — R.v.m.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. — Kurt Student

No means yes in grasshopper language. — Noel Fielding

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. — Helen Keller

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing. — Charles Spurgeon

if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore. — Catherynne M Valente

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. — Julian Baggini

The priest read his thing. I didn't listen. There was the coffin. What had been Betty was in there. It was very hot. The sun came down in one yellow sheet. A fly circled around. Halfway through the halfway funeral two guys in working clothes came carrying my wreath. The roses were dead, dead and dying in the heat, and they leaned the thing up against a nearby tree. Near the end of the service my wreath leaned forward and fell flat on its face. Nobody picked it up. Then it was over. — Charles Bukowski

Saying no", argues the author Kevin Ashton, "has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. — Kevin Ashton

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does. — Frank Herbert

You know how they say a holy man falls seven times and gets back up?" he asked, quoting the Hebrew phrase, the ancient words flying smoothly off his tongue. I nodded.

"I always think that it isn't the persistence that makes him holy but the fact that he fell." His eyes sparkled with passion as he spoke. "You can't really commit to being religious, to loving God, if you haven't spent some time with your face in the dirt. — Leah Vincent

I read like the flame reads the wood. — Alfred Doblin

I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation. — David Levithan