Captain Speke Quotes & Sayings

I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating. — Dorothy Wordsworth

I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can. — Bassem Youssef

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. — Richard P. Feynman

[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. — Elaine Dundy

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."
"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you. — Alexandra Bracken

Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life. — Augustine Of Hippo

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. — George Washington

An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough. — Stephen Colbert

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas! — Caroline Leavitt

So, we have an element newly prominent in American religious and political life, a new form of entitlement, a self-declared elect. What some have seen as a resurgence of Christianity, or at least a bold defense of American cultural tradition - even as another great awakening! - has brought a harshness, a bitterness, a crudeness, and a high-handedness into the public sphere that are only to be compared to the politics, or the collapse of politics, in the period before the Civil War. Its self-righteousness fuels the damnedest things - I use the word advisedly - notably the acquisition of homicidal weapons. I wonder what these supposed biblicists find in the Gospels or the Epistles that could begin to excuse any of it. — Marilynne Robinson

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper! — Rush Limbaugh