Funicula Funiculi Quotes

I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate. ~ Sam Taylor-Wood

plaintively. Ford ~ Douglas Adams

And now, she felt the presence of Grandmother Deal, as always--that same unexplainable presence of the woman who had mothered them all, whose love for her children and her children's children was so deep that after all the years it still seemed a tangible thing, delicate and rare, like the faint subtle odor of a fine perfume.

Could such things be, she wondered vaguely...? Could the loved dead come back? At a time like this, was the memory of them so keen to one sensitive like herself, that they only seemed to return and mingle with those to whom they had been devoted? Or was there in some way unknown to humans, a definite magical blending of these imperishable spirits with the mortal spirits of those they had so deeply loved? ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love. ~ Thomas Watson

If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out. ~ Billy Cobham

I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand all sorts of things, and I decided that chemistry and biology just had too much memory for me to be interested. Physics was very easy. ~ Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best. ~ Bob Kerrey

Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.' ~ Kevin Systrom

And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual. ~ Rosa Parks

fairy godmother says
it's not an easy thing
to accept yourself the way you are.
some people spend their entire lives
trying to master it.
but if anyone is strong enough
to face the challenge,
it's you. ~ Amanda Lovelace

Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating. ~ Pixar's 22 Rules Of Storytelling

I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard. ~ William Gaddis

How various is a face; but an hour ago it was strange and it is now touched with a tenderness that comes, not from it, but from out of the night, the world and the blood, all these things seem to shine in it together. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches. ~ Reggie White