Casco Bay Quotes & Sayings

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers. — James Callaghan

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said. — Mike Bond

I'm with you because I want to be with you. — Jessica Sorensen

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other — Jodi Picoult

But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves? — Jennifer Finney Boylan

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows. — Gary Player

It was a real party of swells. — Elvis Costello

When an animal is looking for something that increases its chances of survival and reproduction (e.g. food, partners or social status), the brain produces sensations of alertness and excitement, which drive the animal to make even greater efforts because they are so very agreeable. In a famous experiment scientists connected electrodes to the brains of several rats, enabling the animals to create sensations of excitement simply by pressing a pedal. When the rats were given a choice between tasty food and pressing the pedal, they preferred the pedal (much like kids preferring to play video games rather than come down to dinner). The rats pressed the pedal again and again, until they collapsed from hunger and exhaustion — Yuval Noah Harari

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step. — Henry Cloud

Our human intelligence is based on computational processes that we are learning to understand. We will ultimately multiply our intellectual powers by applying and extending the methods of human intelligence using the vastly greater capacity of nonbiological computation. So to consider the ultimate limits of computation is really to ask: what is the destiny of our civilization? — Ray Kurzweil

The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air. — Kathy Hepinstall

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments. — Rick Smolan

I become a happier man each time I suffer — Lance Armstrong