Ziggedy Quotes

#1. He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#2. You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

Eric Weiner

#3. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

#4. I wonder who my father is when he isn't just my dad, the guy who helps me with my math homework...He is someone who grew up, who had dreams, who maybe lost them, who fells things.

Olivia Birdsall

#5. The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Hafez

#6. For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Fritz Todt

#7. A practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

Mortimer J. Adler

#8. I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

Winston Churchill

#9. We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

David Mamet

#10. She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.

Orson Scott Card

#11. I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.

Jim Butcher

#12. You're my brother."
"Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.

Cassandra Clare