Bilgewater Brown Quotes & Sayings

There is another human defect which the Law of Natural Selection has yet to remedy: When people of today have full bellies, they are exactly like their ancestors of a million years ago: very slow to acknowledge any awful troubles they may be in. Then is when they forget to keep a sharp lookout for sharks and whales. This was a particularly tragic flaw a million years ago, since the people who were best informed about the state of the planet, like *Andrew MacIntosh, for example, and rich and powerful enough to slow down all the waste and destruction going on, were by definition well fed. So everything was always just fine as far as they were concerned. — Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. — Charles Dickens

I said, "The children wanted to know what life was like."
Junior said, "They [the children] don't have any idea how rough it was."
(George responds)"Or how good it was either! People forget that a picture ain't made from just one color. Life ain't all good or all bad. It's full of everything. — George Dawson

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it. — D.H. Lawrence

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be. — Mandy Hale

Because that's what normal people do when everything goes sideways. They pick up all their shit and make something that doesn't stink. — Mia Storm

Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside. — Jennifer McMahon

If at 1st you don't succeed, stretch out on your La-Z-Boy with a six-pack and a porn flick. Y' still won't succeed, but you sure as hell won't give a shift. — Lois Greiman

The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul — Deepak Chopra

Men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand. — Charles Finch

Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050. — Frances Beinecke

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves. — Joanna Russ

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed. — Joseph John Thomson