Hawfinch Quotes

#1. There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. ...parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and baby boys more room and fewer rules.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. We look at the people who tell the truth, who say real things in public, like they're confused. Crazy. As if everything should be said safely or not at all and what you feel shouldn't be taken seriously. Which is why it's not polite to say "I'm going to kiss you now because I can't do anything else.

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#4. If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.

Katharine Hayhoe

#5. People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Frank Schatzing

#6. Be better than yesterday.

T.F. Hodge

#7. Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Shannon Hale

#8. When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In

Michael Lewis

#9. Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Rod Serling

#10. Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

Win Butler

#12. was dying a strange death. And terrified. It was that death I didn't want but needed. I could feel it. I longed for it, craved it, loathed it, abhorred it, ran from it,

Lucian Bane