1608 W Quotes & Sayings

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil ... Gee ... It's got teeth marks all over it ... She nibbles her pencil ... She's human! — Charles M. Schulz

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. — Bernard Bailyn

In the interval from about February to May 1609, there was considerable material progress in and about Jamestown. Perhaps forty acres were cleared and prepared for planting in Indian corn, the new grain that fast became a staple commodity. A "deep well" was dug in the fort. The church was re-covered and twenty cabins built. A second trial was made at glass manufacture in the furnaces built late in 1608. A blockhouse was built at the isthmus which connected the Island to the mainland for better control of the Indians, and a new fort was erected on a tidal creek across the river from Jamestown. — Charles E. Hatch

I'm a bad son of a bitch, I'm a hard son of a bitch, I deserve a frigging medal. — Jackson Spencer Bell

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. — Mark Crispin Miller

By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free. — Pedro Okoro

Hot damn. What does this woman have that I don't? Why do men like Noah and my husband fall in love with her? — Tarryn Fisher

I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love. — Seth Adam Smith

The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order. — Sean Brady

Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure. — Arthur C. Clarke