Carper Custom Quotes & Sayings

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies. — Hillary Clinton

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever. — Molly Crabapple

Whatever the losses in warmth and comfort, the gains in space proved irresistible. So the development of the fireplace became one of the great breakthroughs in domestic history: they allowed people to lay boards across the beams and create a whole new world upstairs. — Bill Bryson

I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure. — E. M. Forster

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think. — Kurt Busiek

So holy water really does work? — Keri Arthur

And Futh, looking at the lighthouse, wondered how this could happen--how there could be this constant warning of danger, the taking of all these precautions, and yet still there was all this wreckage. — Alison Moore

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'. — Thomas J. Watson

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. — David Mamet

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. — Baron De Montesquieu

Happiness is the best cosmetic."---Model Patient — Karen Duffy

As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled. — Betsy Beers

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down. — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing. — Paul Dano

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest. — Aristotle.