Yabutt Quotes & Sayings

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? — Oscar Wilde

And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. — Cecelia Ahern

I don't need sound to talk to me, — John Cage

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. — Billy Sherwood

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of "Yellow Submarine," which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What you don't know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in for a week, a month, or a year - even if you come home without a scratch - you are never, ever going to be the same.
When I went in, I was eighteen. I thought it was all glory and you win lots of medals. You think you're going to be the guy. Then you find out the cost is very great. Especially when you don't see the kids you were with when you went in. Living with it can be hell. It's like the devil presides in you. I knew what I sighed up for, yes, and I would do it again. But the reality of war - words can't begin to describe it. — William Guarnere

for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The — Daniel Kahneman

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. — Thom Filicia

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides — Aaron Fletcher

And you used my heart as a Kleenex," Nellie sang. "But you're the one full of snot! — Clifford Riley