"Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Air Quotes #Wish Quotes #Castles Quotes

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.”
“The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.”

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (2012). “From the River's Edge”, p.16, Living Justice Press
“I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a painting on a wall--they're magnetic. The art is the alloy, so to speak. And our souls are equipped with whatever properties are required to attract that alloy. I'm no scientist so I don't really know what the hell these properties are, but my point is we're drawn to stuff we've already got a connection to. Part of the thing is already inside of us.”
“To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.”
“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.”
“Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.”

You may also like: