Yellowhammer News Quotes & Sayings

In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm. — Bill Bryson

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it. — Jim Broadbent

Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool's errand, is that happiness isn't a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to - by which I don't mean ethically correctly so much as just consciously, fully engaged in the business of living. In this respect it resembles averted vision, a phenomena familiar to backyard astronomers whereby, in order to pick out a very faint star, you have to let your gaze drift casually to the space just next to it; if you look directly at it, it vanishes. And it's also true, come to think of it, that the only stars we ever see are not the "real" stars, those cataclysms taking place in the present, but always only the light of the untouchable past. — Tim Kreider

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. — Eric Temple Bell

The moon is the same but the observers are different. — Debasish Mridha

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts. — Chuck Palahniuk

Now keep in mind, memories aren't historical archives. They're - improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might be factually wrong, no matter how clearly you remember it. The brain has a funny habit of building composites. Inserting details after the fact. But that's not to say your memories aren't true, okay? They're an honest reflection of how you saw the world, and every one of them went into shaping how you see it. But they're not photographs. More like impressionist paintings. Okay? — Peter Watts

Be still and let it wash over you. You are a stone at the bottom of a river. You are hard rock. The water wears you down, but it only makes you smoother. And the smoother and harder you are, the less the flow can affect you. — D.J. Molles

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. — Haruki Murakami

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves. — Anne Lamott

Honest people never fear the truth. — Frank Sonnenberg