Smoke Detector Quotes

#1. Here's how I see your weight - it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

Jan Hunt

#3. Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Time goes too slow for those who are bored, to quick for those who procrastinate. Too long for those without goals and too short for those without focus. But for the man or woman who lives a life pursuing purpose, timing is perfect, and their time is always now.

Dwaun S. Cox

#5. Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

John Corey Whaley

#6. The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

Teju Cole

#7. One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

Dave Matthews

#8. People like to own things.

Frank Zappa

#9. My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

Dan Fogelberg

#10. You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.

Alex Malley

#11. The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

Kano Jigoro

#12. I'm just scared of crowds. I just think people require things of me whenever there's a screaming crowd, and I always think I won't be able to provide what they want, so that's why I look scared all the time.

Robert Pattinson

#13. I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.

Lilla Crawford