Baylands Quotes & Sayings

Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

Today is the first day in history.

-One of Nathan's Daily Gems
From the 'Book Store ON Main Street'
Seal Beach, CA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. — Jack Anderson

There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been the fathers and mothers of movements, and of course sons and daughters, even nephews and nieces. — Edward W. Said

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages? — Tamora Pierce

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing. — Tom Tancredo

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise. — Missy Lyons

Write something the skeptics will sneer at. — Marty Rubin

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. — Azar Nafisi

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf
at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel
you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety
& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble. — Herman Melville