Opal Whiteley Quotes

#1. I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

Opal Whiteley

#2. The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go.

Opal Whiteley

#3. When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

Opal Whiteley

#4. Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He

Brian McClellan

#5. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.

Truman Capote

#6. And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

Opal Whiteley

#7. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Alexander Pope

#8. I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

Joseph Brodsky

#9. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

Nick Harkaway

#10. Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

#11. Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

Opal Whiteley

#12. It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms.

Opal Whiteley

#13. Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Lisa Gardner

#14. Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Josh Billings

#15. People change, just wait

NightBits

#16. By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

Opal Whiteley

#17. It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Alan Watts

#18. Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

Ravi Zacharias

#19. I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

Wayne Brady