Winnower Ceiling Quotes & Sayings

I think today is already sucky enough without splinters in my ass. — A.S. King

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. — Eugen Herrigel

We are suspended in language. — Niels Bohr

Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights, or something. But it occurred to me that you could probably see stars from the vast majority of the earth. It was city lights that were actually rare. — Emily Adrian

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. — James Meade

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons. — Robert Greene

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced. — Daniel Boulud

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or ... anything. — Barack Obama

My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds. — Sarah J. Maas

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them. — Keren Ann

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them? — Dorothy Parker

I always think that things have to happen the way they do happen, that there are so many inner and outer forces joining at every event that it becomes a kind of fate. I learned from studying Buddhism that there's beauty, and certainly a lot of peace, in accepting that." I sniffed. A smile twinkled sheepishly across his face. "Okay, okay," he said, "how about this? If you worry about it, you draw it to you. — Jane Smiley