Qendroj Quotes

#1. Then centrifugal gravity took over, and with something close to majesty the skeletal spacecraft descended out of the repair bay as smoothly and elegantly as a falling chandelier.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday

#3. Imagine a group of people all staring at writing on a wall, everyone congratulating one another on reading the words correctly. But behind that group is a mirror whose image shows the writing's true message. No one looks at the mirror. No one thinks it's necessary.

Anonymous

#4. The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey. (Wouldn't they just?) It's sgriob.

Bill Bryson

#5. One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who can get the best tunes out of her.

Sameh Elsayed

#6. Always be ready to release your mind.

Gichin Funakoshi

#7. Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#8. It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life.

Colleen Hoover

#9. I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.

Julie Powell

#10. Everything in life is about timing. I've been able to have my experiences and learn from them and kind of figure out the thing that works for me and is best for me, and that's all I can really say.

Ciara

#11. Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

Art Rooney

#12. My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

Mattie Stepanek

#13. The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

Ray Bradbury

#14. Millionaires don't use astrology ... the billionaires do.

J. P. Morgan