Amoco Federal Quotes & Sayings

I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse. — Kirk Kerkorian

I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people. — Douglas Adams

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. — Richard Simmons

A woman should love with her mind. Let men love with their hearts. — Eva Hoffman

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson

And he came to understand how those almost mystical bonds of trust and affection, if nurtured correctly, might lift a crew above the ordinary sphere, transport it to a place where nine boys somehow became one thing - a thing that could not quite be defined, a thing that was so in tune with the water and the earth and the sky above that, as they rowed, effort was replaced by ecstasy. It was a rare thing, a sacred thing, a thing devoutly to be hoped for.
p 48 — Daniel James Brown

The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad. — Brian Henson

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose. — Edward Gibbon

It matters greatly not only that we birth and die but how we birth and die. — Ronald L. Grimes

[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical idols; not God's word, but man's interpretation of that Word; not the faith once delivered to the saints, but the sometimes silly caperings of those saints. — Harry Boonstra

What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny. — Kurt Vonnegut

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do. — Kathy Ireland