Chukwuka Monye Quotes

#1. Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.

Diane Ackerman

#2. Everyone on staff seemed to realize that _Chips Ahoy!_ was like the chest acne of children's television, best covered up in the hope of growing out of it soon.

Alison Umminger

#3. In other words, being born with a certain ability does not mean we are obliged to use it, and in rare cases, we are obliged not to. All

Ransom Riggs

#4. When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.
[sonnet 6]

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

Stephen Dunn

#6. My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.

Graham Nash

#7. Validate your direction, verify your results. Make resistance work for you by motivating you to continue the path you are on, to continue the journey to your very best. To continue on to where you previously feared to go.

Tony Curl

#8. Less extreme is the simple costliness in time and convenience and money and effort to replace excessive and addictive leisure with acts of servant love.

John Piper

#9. Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

Nguyen Quyen

#10. Mentally, you must believe it before you physically start it, or else you will never reach prosperity.

Greg Plitt