Sand Wind And Stars Quotes

#1. It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#2. You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Mel Torme

#4. Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Shere Hite

#6. Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

George Sand

#7. There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Frank Zappa

#8. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

Ian C. Esslemont

#9. Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it's loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

Drexel Deal

#10. God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard P. Feynman

#11. A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

Ban Johnson

#12. Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations. Our sordid interests imprison us within their walls. Only a comrade can grasp us by the hand and haul us free.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. What matters most:
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
Wind, Sand and Stars.

Richard Bach

#14. I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Jasper Fforde

#15. If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

Michael Josephson

#16. Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Alan Bean

#17. Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels. And through it all, a dying wind of change blew, bringing with it the cinnamon smell of late October.

Stephen King