Arpelligo Quotes & Sayings

You know how the waypoints work. I don't. I get it. But if what you were doing was working, I wouldn't be here. You brought me down here to figure this out, and I'm going to figure it out. If you don't want to split up, then help me. Or find a chair and sit in it. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team? — Joe Hill

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself. — David First

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. — H.L. Mencken

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! — Publilius Syrus

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. — Archibald MacLeish

Life is short and progress is slow. — Gabriel Lippmann

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family's income is managed. — Jim George

A thing is symmetrical if there is something you can do to it so that after you have finished doing it, it looks the same as before. — Dave Goldberg

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares. — Euripides

Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law. — Barack Obama

Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission. — Joyce Tenneson

The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or even Jesus may have drunk it. Cleopatra might have bathed in it. Crazy Horse might have watered his pony with it. Sometimes water was liquid. Sometimes it was rock hard- ice. Sometimes it was soft- snow. Sometimes it was visible but weightless- clouds. And sometimes it was completely invisible- vapor- floating up into the the sky like the soals of dead people. There was nothing like water in the world, Jim said. It made the desert bloom but also turned rich bottomland into swamp. Without it we'd die, but it could also kill us, and that was why we loved it, even craved it, but also feared it. Never take water forgranted, Jim said. Always cherish it. Always beware of it. — Jeannette Walls