Gillikin Quotes

#1. If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take responsibility for their actions or for changing their class and station in life.

Gregory Maguire

#2. It's a Magril - a bird that's native to Gillikin Country. It spends half its life as a beetle, and when it's an adult, it goes to sleep for a year and wakes up as this majestic creature."
"Kind of like a butterfly."
"Kind of like you," he said.

Danielle Paige

#3. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

Ron Livingston

#4. Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi

Lao-Tzu

#5. I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

Daphne Du Maurier

#6. I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

Nikola Tesla

#7. The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Clarence Darrow

#8. I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

Raymond Chandler

#9. All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness and self-indulgence. He would have liked to eat well, sleep well, satisfy his passions liberally, without stirring from one spot or risking the misfortune of a bit of fatigue.

Emile Zola

#10. One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

Martina Hingis

#11. But as I grew up, I began to understand that a savvy is just a know-how of a different sort.

Ingrid Law

#12. I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

Elizabeth Warren

#13. Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

Raphaela Mello