Takapuna Quotes

#1. I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Lorde

#2. Things fall apart, and fade, and when these things happen you just need to pick yourself up and start over,

Evan Reeves

#3. I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.

Dan Gilroy

#4. It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures - but far and wide.

Daniel Coit Gilman

#5. The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and ... become a living language

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

#6. We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

Pittacus Lore

#7. Snow's all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it's falling

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

Girl Talk

#9. If you want to see magic, love someone and see the magical transformation.

Debasish Mridha

#10. We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Hans Kung

#11. When I kissed Havah at that moment I felt hundreds of windows fly open inside my heart. It made me wish that I had never kissed anyone else.

Adam Davies

#12. never, ever say to someone in need: "Call me if you need help." If you want to help someone, just do it. Our

Thomas L. Friedman

#13. Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.

Gero Miesenbock

#14. For much of our lives, we live in the shallows. Then something happens - a crisis, a birth, a death - and we get this glimpse of tremendous depth. My soul becomes shallow when my interests and thoughts go no further than myself. A person should be deep because life itself is deep.

John Ortberg

#15. Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.

Mehmet Murat Ildan