Cathie Pelletier famous quotes

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
-- Cathie Pelletier

#Water #Able #Stuff

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
-- Cathie Pelletier

#Giving #Advice #Backyards

Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.
-- Cathie Pelletier

#Needs #Alive #Sometimes

If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too hard for me to find what I was looking for, especially if I was looking for it through a few glasses of scotch.
-- Cathie Pelletier

#Religious #Book #Scotch

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.