Acclimatise Quotes

#1. Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.

Tahir Shah

#2. I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Theodore Sturgeon

#3. I once visited a village of primitive people.
At village, I felt time and life moved slower.

Toba Beta

#4. Subtle and quick to anger?" "Not so subtle.

Jim Butcher

#5. You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

Russell Brand

#6. That movie we saw tonight really freaked me out."
Her brows rose incredulously. "I'm a ghost, you're a shape-shifter, you live with a cursed vampire, and a zombie movie freaked you out. Honey, I love you, but that's a bold-faced lie. What gives?

Kristen Painter

#7. It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

Mercy Celeste

#8. Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

Alberto Salazar

#9. I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses ... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

Stephen King

#10. It gets really dark before it gets light.

Oliver Sykes

#11. Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

Dean Kamen

#12. There are no accidents in Nature,

John Muir