Artrell Hawkins Quotes & Sayings

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis. — Adam McKay

Natural gas is highly explosive, invisible, poisonous, and odorless. Yet we accept natural gas, even though it kills not two but 400 Americans a year, because it was introduced before we got crazy about risk. We accept coal, even though mining it is nasty and filthy and kills dozens of people every year. By contrast, we're terrified of nuclear energy. Chernobyl, the worst nuclear power disaster ever, killed only 30 people. Some say the radiation may eventually kill others, but even if that's true, natural gas kills more people every year. — John Stossel

The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay. — George R R Martin

O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp. — John Goldthwaite

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts. — Steven Rodney McQueen

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch. — Mary Roach

To notice is to select, to
regard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as more
noteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and the
rest we ignore - for which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividly
clear picture of whatever we choose to notice. — Alan W. Watts

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. — Pamela Ribon

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. — Gregory Maguire

Do people talk about the war?" Miller asked. "Often," the missionary said. "Anyone make sense of it?" "No. I don't believe war ever does. It's a madness that's in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides." "Sounds like a disease." "The herpes simplex of the species?" the missionary said with a laugh. "I suppose there are worse ways to think of it. I'm afraid that as long as we're human, it will be with us. — James S.A. Corey

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal. — Julia A. Boyd

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift. — Rick Springfield