Blackwelder Gopher Quotes & Sayings

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction. — Dean Koontz

Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much ... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess. — Mindy McCready

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you. — Tori Amos

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them. — Walter F. Mondale

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. — Claire Fagin

Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them! — Mary Slessor

The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow. — Lynn Margulis

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help. — Jose Andres

Happened to them. And the more confident they became, the more sensory details they added to their false memories ("the place smelled horrible").22 Researchers have created imagination inflation indirectly, too, merely by asking people to explain how an unlikely event might have happened. Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.23 Writing turns a fleeting thought into a fact of history, and for Wilkomirski, writing down his memories confirmed his memories. "My illness showed me that it was time for me to write it all down for myself," said Wilkomirski, "just as it was held in my memory, to trace every hint all the way back."24 Just as he rejected the historians at Majdanek who challenged his — Carol Tavris

Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them. — Dan Castellaneta

Lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. — Charles Dickens

I have the sick fantasy that whatever I see at the movies is going to happen to me at home. My bladder capacity increased tenfold after I saw "The Shining" because I was sure that if I went into the bathroom late at night, there would be a dead woman in the bathtub. — Bailey White

I had a dream. And it came true. — Anne Hathaway

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable. — Robin Hobb

We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. — T.C. Boyle