Lily Pad Quotes

#1. A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

Tori Amos

#3. When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Leslie Hope

#4. People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

#5. We can do hard things -- it's the impossible that takes a little longer.

Alan Packer

#6. It used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

Julie Anne Peters

#8. To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy

#9. Everything you are
afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot
conceive of that happen.

Simon Van Booy

#10. She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.

Kevin Hearne

#11. Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.

Martin Amis

#12. Attract, Comfort, and Seduce.

Erik Von Markovik

#13. If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business ... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

Christian Bale

#14. Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Zadie Smith

#15. Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

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