Blowes Designs Quotes & Sayings

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. — Henry David Thoreau

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country. — George Carlin

I would take up wickedness — Mark Twain

Ask and expect an answer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance ... something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order. — Julio Cortazar

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do. — Steven Brust

Don't go to war no more. Steady peace because peace is all we need. — Katherine Jackson

But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connection between the apple and the tree: the organic connection. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple ... you've fallen off the tree. — D.H. Lawrence

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian. — Michael Dirda