Prodigies Academy Quotes

#1. I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

George Strait

#2. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness. People carried their own distinct personal fragrances.

Leslye Walton

#3. To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Anais Nin

#4. It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Idries Shah

#5. To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

Alain Ducasse

#6. It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Hisham Matar

#7. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Mark Twain

#8. Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

Bernice Weissbourd

#9. Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Erwin Chargaff

#10. Men suck.
- Not all men. Just the really good ones.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#11. A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to revise it.

Barry Unsworth

#12. Why would you take so much bloody interest in where I put my cock? - Tyrion Lannister

George R R Martin

#13. The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

Peja Stojakovic

#14. The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

Norman Lock