Ballands Tortoise Quotes & Sayings

Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams? — Pope Francis

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. — David Shields

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. — Mark Twain

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When faced with Death, people lose control of their bodily functions - particularly the majority of those men who are known to be brave-hearted. For this reason, the corpse-strewn battlefields that you've depicted thousands of times reek not of blood, gunpowder and heated armor as is assumed, but of shit and rotting flesh. — Orhan Pamuk

Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace. But it is peace, for the most part. — Scott Turow