Woodyatt Ready Quotes & Sayings

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too. — Robert Mitchum

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. — Fernando Pessoa

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change. — Edward Lampert

Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. — David Mitchell

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. — Henry Paulson

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you. — William Monahan

Sometimes, in one of his more exuberant or desperate moods, Pa would go out in the veld and sprinkle brandy on the daisies to make them drunk so that they wouldn't feel the pain of shrivelling up and dying. — Andre Brink

The law of Dante's Hell is the law of symbolic retribution. As they sinned so are they punished. They took no sides, therefore they are given no place. As they pursued the ever-shifting illusion of their own advantage, changing their courses with every changing wind, so they pursue eternally an elusive, ever-shifting banner. As their sin was a darkness, so they move in darkness. As their own guilty conscience pursued them, so they are pursued by swarms of wasps and hornets. And as their actions were a moral filth, so they run eternally through the filth of worms and maggots which they themselves feed. — Dante Alighieri

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden. — Iyanla Vanzant