Top 32 Wingfield Quotes
#1. Whatever it was, Calla's imagination had waked up from a long sleep, and these days she had the feeling that magic and miracles might be hovering in the air all around, waiting to happen. She wasn't a great believer in such things, but she didn't push the thought away.
Jenny Wingfield
#2. But leaving is just something that happens in life. We all do it someday, one way or another. There's worse things than going away with the taste of love still fresh in our mouths.
Jenny Wingfield
#3. You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.
Jim Rohn
#4. And that's the way things have gone along from that day until this. Not staying the same, but always changing. And that's okay, because once one part of a thing changes, all the other pieces begin to shift, and pretty soon it's a whole new story.
Jenny Wingfield
#5. It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.
Sally Gardner
#6. She was the most alone person he had ever met - so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life's glories take her own breath away.
Jenny Wingfield
#7. The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
Reid Hoffman
#8. There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
Claire Wingfield
#9. I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
Foster Friess
#10. I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesn't make them believe. It just makes them think you're crazy as a bessie bug.
Jenny Wingfield
#11. Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don't know what's what anymore.
Jenny Wingfield
#12. September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.
Jenny Wingfield
#13. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
Hugh Hefner
#14. But when a person loves you so much that he asks for nothing in return, it's only to be expected that that's about what he gets. It's like a Law of Nature.
Jenny Wingfield
#15. You don't go around questioning the Bible, not if you want to go to Heaven one of these days. Besides, once you start picking holes in things, it's hard to figure out which parts to throw away and which parts to keep.
Jenny Wingfield
#16. If You are love, he roared, then love ain't much to crow about.
Jenny Wingfield
#17. I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown
#18. What's in these tacos?" a customer asked Del. "Nobody you know, mister," Del said.
John Joseph Adams
#20. I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
Dalai Lama
#22. If you want to so something you've never done before, you will have to believe something you've never believed before.
Paul Clayton Gibbs
#23. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Garrison Keillor
#24. They'd have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they'd been scared silly that they might find that child dead.
Jenny Wingfield
#25. The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'
Ekaterina Gordeeva
#26. And she knew Life well enough to know that if one person in a house gets really miserable for any length of time, the misery spreads like smallpox.
Jenny Wingfield
#27. Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it was real. It was like Swan said, some things, everybody just had to find out about for themselves.
Jenny Wingfield
#28. For Swan's birthday, Calla made pineapple upside-down cake, which is not the kind of cad you put candles on. So there was nothing to blow and make wishes on. Nobody missed the candles, because when you're eating pineapple upside-down cake, there is nothing much left to wish for
Jenny Wingfield
#29. Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.
Claire Wingfield
#31. If you watch what the birds and wild animals do, you can survive pretty much anywhere, because they know things humans have forgotten, such as what's poisonous and what's not, and what it means when things suddenly get too quiet, and where to hide when what it means is danger.
Jenny Wingfield
#32. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
