Polly Higgins Quotes

#1. It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#2. She got locs. I got em. I didn't want her paying someone to do something I can do for her.

Desiree

#3. If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

Rick Warren

#4. I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

Kim Hyesoon

#5. We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice.

Jim Harrison

#6. Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn't be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why should it disturb or disappoint us when our creations turn out to be more accomplished than ourselves?

China Mieville

#7. Thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! The charm's wound up.

William Shakespeare

#8. The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

David A. Bednar

#9. The key to good style, far more than obeying any list of commandments, is to have a clear conception of the make-believe world in which you're pretending to communicate.

Steven Pinker

#10. Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.

Ann B. Davis

#12. If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see out Zooey again.

J.D. Salinger

#13. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Taylor

#14. I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Clive Sinclair