Carnies Small Quotes & Sayings

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. — Herbert Spencer

Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
"No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it. — Cassandra Clare

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. — Rin Chupeco

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor. — Justin Sewell

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen. — Michael Jordan

How even I, "a dutiful daughter," as Simone de Beauvoir once described her young self, was living a life so different from my mother's; when she was my age she was married, about to become pregnant with me. I was beginning to think that this habit of mind - constantly tracing myself back to my mother, to where she'd begun and left off - wasn't idiosyncratic, but something that many if not most women did, a feature of the female experience. — Kate Bolick

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo — Tim Fargo

I still rate the bit in the first 'Tomb Raider' where the T Rex comes round the end of the valley and roars as one of the most awesome gaming experiences, and I still adore 'Tomb Raider' for putting that in my life. — Rhianna Pratchett

While he attends to his rats, Persinger gives me the lowdown on the haunt theory. Why would a certain type of electromagnetic field make one hear things or sense a presence? What's the mechanism? The answer hinges on the fact that exposure to electromagnetic fields lowers melatonin levels. Melatonin, he explains, is an anti-convulsive; if you have less of it in your system, your brain - in particular, your right temporal lobe - will be more prone to tiny epileptic-esque microseizures and the subtle hallucinations these seizures can cause. — Mary Roach

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites. — Nachman Of Breslov

We come, brother. We come, Young Bull. — Robert Jordan

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. — Nicolas Chamfort