Applewood Quotes & Sayings

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more. — Orson Scott Card

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered. — Norman Mailer

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me. — Tatiana Maslany

I must be continually ready to give up the parts of my life that God wants to replace with trust in him, even if what I need to give up are my own expectations and continual need to be in the driver's seat of my life. — Kristen Strong

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ... — George McGovern

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier. — Ashley Greene

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk. — Tom DeLonge

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose. — Neil Postman

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked. — Bill Watterson

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. — Emanuel Celler

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside. — Krishna Das

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play. — Pierce Brosnan

You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink. — Galway Kinnell

Whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion. — Henri Barbusse