Bivouac Crossword Quotes & Sayings

My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. — Ray Charles

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger. — Steven Johnson

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues. — R.D. Laing

It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods. — Eowyn Ivey

It's laugh or cry," said Rigg.
"Cry then. Give the old man his due. — Orson Scott Card

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away. — Anthony Horowitz

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience. — Michael Josephson

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else! — David Mitchell

...the world is full of ghosts .... And the longer you live, the more haunted you become.... the ghosts are there to remind us that we still live, that we still have hearts that beat, flesh that burns, lungs that gasp for air.... Never forget that ..... or those deaths have no meaning. — James Rollins

We are all glass soldiers. — Steven Galloway

My first bit of advice is to not personalize a job loss. The cause for the dismissal was a business calculation. This is difficult for many to grasp; it's difficult to accept that events just occur. Come to see this as an experience. Obviously not the most pleasant experience, but it is one that you'll overcome. — John-Talmage Mathis

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting. — Alice Hoffman

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth ... she is the only flower on earth ... that grows unwatered. — Kola Boof