Percolated Quotes

#1. With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.

Flann O'Brien

#2. They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#3. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.

Nicola Yoon

#4. I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Michael Strahan

#5. I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

Meg Tilly

#6. sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life

Sadashivan Nair

#7. I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Robert Pattinson

#8. By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

Ajay Devgan

#9. Are you running away from something?

Prince Philip

#10. I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans ... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Norman Mailer

#11. The site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

Jim Al-Khalili

#12. Curiosity, for which nothing is closed off, and idle talk, for which everything is supposedly understood, provide persons with the guarantee of a 'life' which, supposedly, is genuinely 'lively'.

Steven Foulds

#13. I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features.

Holly Hunter

#14. She went downstairs to boil some pasta. Puttanesca. She couldn't resist the dig.

Lauren Groff

#15. Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at

Henry Marsh

#16. Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

Alexandra Stoddard