Burtis Nails Quotes & Sayings

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' — Octavia E. Butler

I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon. — Dwight L. Moody

When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those Indians for the first time; we got directions from them and reached the top of the mound just as the sun set. We had camping equiptment with us, but we made no fire. We didn't even make down our beds. We just sat side by side on that mound until it became light enough to find our way back to the road. We didn't talk. When we looked at each other in the gray dawn, our faces were gray, too, quiet, very grave. When we reached town again, we didn't talk either. We just parted and went home and went to bed. That's what we thought, felt, about the mound. We were children, it is true, yet we were descendants of people who read books and who were, or should have been, beyond superstition and impervious to mindless fear. — William Faulkner

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph. — Thomas Carlyle

In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright). — Terry Pratchett

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. — Chuck Barris

Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. — Holly Black

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself. — Brian Michael Bendis

Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart."
"Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college."
He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said."
"Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet. — Elizabeth Scott

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England. — Sara Sheridan

There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness. — Gregg Braden

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. — Michel De Montaigne

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. — Richard Flanagan