Heikki Seppa Quotes

#1. We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

Kamila Shamsie

#2. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Brian Koppelman

#3. My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.

Courtney Love

#4. She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Ayn Rand

#5. Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are ... stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us ... People are too complicated for labels.

Philip Pullman

#6. Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

Marguerite Henry

#7. The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Josef Pieper

#8. America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.

Trevor Noah

#9. In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included.

Mark Kurlansky

#10. Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

Edward Sapir