Franscell Strickland Quotes

#1. The worthless usually live long.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

George Eliot

#3. There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Baltasar Gracian

#4. Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

#5. Women tend to fall in love with me when I take my clothes off.

Tiffany Reisz

#6. Angels are speaking to all of us ... some of us are only listening better.
-ANONYMOUS

Joan Wester Anderson

#7. I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)

Erica Packer

#8. When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.

Sy Montgomery

#9. A shower is the perfect place for crying. No one can hear you if you do it quietly, into a wash-cloth, with the water running.

Suzanne Supplee

#10. Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone.

Tomas Transtromer

#11. Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#12. have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals. Ferryboats used to lose valuable trips because their passengers grew old and died, waiting for us to get by.

Mark Twain

#14. I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Octavia E. Butler

#15. Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

J. Oswald Sanders