Yawny Valley Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. — Louis Nizer

Always tighten the cinch when you're riding down a steep trail. — Dwight Hood Roberts

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening. — Abby Sunderland

It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists. — Neal Stephenson

My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we'd visit Miami. — Jay Parini

Fear of confronting emotions is like fear of reading road signs. — Sam Owen

Name. "Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob; "I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!" "The Founder of the Feast indeed!" cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it. — Charles Dickens

Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list. — Jeffrey Veen

I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily. — Dean Edell

Maybe it's working because I'm an author, and maybe it's working because Karen works like life depends on this bookstore, or because we have a particularly brilliant staff, or because Nashville is a city that is particularly sympathetic to all things independent. Maybe we just got lucky. But my luck has made me believe that changing the course of the corporate world is possible. Amazon doesn't get to make all the decisions; the people can make them by how and where they spend their money. If what a bookstore offers matters to you, then shop at a bookstore. If you feel that the experience of reading a book is valuable, then read the book. This is how we change the world: we grab hold of it. We change ourselves. — Ann Patchett

But none of them are you." Luka pointed to his eye again. "We match. Why would I want anyone else? Nobody else if you. Long brown hair, blue eyes and tanned skinned beautiful you. — Tillie Cole

On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered with dry seaweeds, withered jelly-fishes, and a multitudinous life that gasped for the ocean: at last the cook washing throb of the great sea of bliss, whose fountain is the heart of God, had stolen upon her consciousness, and she knew that she lived. — George MacDonald

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. — Martin Seligman

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah