Chalcedonies Quotes

#1. A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

Alejo Carpentier

#2. A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)

Raymond Chandler

#3. Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

James S.A. Corey

#5. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylor

#6. There are no unwinnable wars.

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

Gary Zukav

#8. My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

Joss Whedon

#9. Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

Lakesha Ruise

#10. Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Russell Smith

#11. I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Dean Koontz