Antique Mushroom Quotes & Sayings

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. — Newt Gingrich

Before that night, I'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy. — Philip Roth

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. — Ted Dekker

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry. — Raven-Symone

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. — Confucius

In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it. — Denise Levertov

This is a twisted, twisted tale. A tale of twisted love. — Ryohgo Narita

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed. — Bill Gross

Leon's life was all about discipline. He'd heard a weight-loss guru once explain that the key to maintaining a slim figure was to really "listen to your body" and only eat until it signaled that it was full. Leon had listened to his body. It wanted three entire pepperoni and mushroom pizzas every single day, plus a rather large cake. And malted milkshakes, the old fashioned kind you could make in your kitchen with an antique Hamilton Beech machine in avocado-colored plastic, served up in a tall red anodized aluminum cup. Leon's body was extremely verbose on what it wanted him to shovel into it. So Leon ignored his body. — Cory Doctorow

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. — Thomas Carlyle

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality. — William Plomer

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going. — Brian Baumgartner