Banden De Conde Quotes & Sayings

Twenty-seven bones make up the human hand. Lunate and capitate and navicular, scaphoid, and triquetrum, the tiny horn-shaped pisiforms of the outer wrist. Though different in shape and density each is smoothly aligned and flush-fitted, lashed by a meshwork of ligatures running under the skin. All vertebrates share a similar set of bones, and all bones grow out of the same tissue: a bird's wing, a whale's dorsal fine, a gecko's pad, your own hand. Bust an arm or leg and the knitting bone's sealed in a wrap of calcium so it's stronger than before. Bust a bone in your hand and it never heals right. — Craig Davidson

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional. — Henry James

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them. — Plato

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker. — Kate Langley Bosher

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine. — Shannon L. Alder

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. — Theodore Dreiser

Hey Shelly, you're looking at me like I'm from another planet. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven't got a care in the world. — Meryl Sawyer