Quotes About Selkies

#1. But unlike sirens, selkies don't mean any harm with their songs. They don't sing to seduce or to kill. Their songs have nothing to do with anyone but themselves. They sing for the simple joy of it, and because of that, I imagine their songs are more beautiful than those of any siren.

Betsy Cornwell

#2. Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know.

Susan Wiggs

#3. First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

Astra Taylor

#4. How can I tell what I mean till I see what I say?

Anonymous

#5. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

#6. Suit yourself, but don't pretend you would have done any better. There are only so many options a man has when he's about to lose everything.

J. Keller Ford

#7. I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

Alison Mosshart

#8. To find the rainbow and life's incredible beauties, learn to play with adversity.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.

Deborah Blake

#10. Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

Will Christopher Baer

#11. Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.

Chick Willis

#12. I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Brandi Carlile

#13. I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

Margo Lanagan

#16. For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Anthony Burgess

#17. It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.
No one swims only in the shallow water.

Betsy Cornwell

#18. People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

John Fairchild

#19. I don't mind my age.

Heather Mills

#20. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

Guy Consolmagno

#21. Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.

Alex Pareene