Skifree Quotes

#1. Do not take to heart everything you hear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. This general flattening of objects that rotate is why Earth's pole-to-pole diameter is smaller than its diameter at the equator. Not by much: three-tenths of one percent - about twenty-six miles.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

Clarence Day

#4. Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

John Shelton Reed

#5. Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Kathryn Prescott

#6. It's still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory,
A case of do or die!
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.

Herman Hupfeld

#7. It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

Timothy Keller

#8. Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. The obligations of citizens is to make it clear that Aboriginal issues are central to our public concerns, that we want them dealt with in a fully democratic context of openness and justice, that we will vote accordingly.

John Ralston Saul

#10. Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

Robert Toombs

#11. knowledge wasn't created but discovered;

Robert Charles Wilson

#12. Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

Lewis Black

#13. We're built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Jimmy Iovine

#14. This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy painted by Thomas Gainborough) ... somebody actually MADE those paintings ... (it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

Robert Rauschenberg

#15. I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me.

Sarah Dessen