Daby Roddy Quotes

#1. Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone

Basho Matsuo

#3. Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.

Jonathan Dee

#4. Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life.

Chloe-Jasmine Whichello

#5. At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't.

Crystal Woods

#6. Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Lou Reed

#7. Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

John Owen

#8. Life is the crucible that forges our soul.

Heidi Garrett

#9. It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Michael O'Donoghue

#10. It was a dark story.

Joseph Conrad

#11. We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

Annalee Newitz

#12. An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.

Marjorie Fleming

#13. Adrian sighed. I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

Richelle Mead

#14. What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Ovid

#15. The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Adoniram Judson