Serafina And The Twisted Staff Quotes

#1. Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do.

Raymond Z. Gallun

#2. A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure.
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Jeannette Walls

#3. You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Jamie Zawinski

#4. I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Albert Einstein

#5. Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

Hermann Hesse

#6. Don't let anyone discourage you. Let alone your parents.

Sarvesh Jain

#7. A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

Harold Jeffreys

#8. No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.

John Vance Cheney