Carolyn Wells Quotes
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.
Carolyn Wells
Quotes to Explore
'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.
Dan Simmons
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
Isaac Asimov
Lindsey Buckingham and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
Matt Taibbi
It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
Lindsey Buckingham
When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
Don Lemon
When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
Brian Blessed
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
Vivien Leigh
創造條件讓人民批評政府,監督政府,同時充分發揮新聞輿論的監督作用,讓權力在陽光下運行。
Wen Jiabao
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Salman Rushdie
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.
Carolyn Wells