Cavils Taylor Quotes & Sayings

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy. — Henry David Thoreau

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great. — Joseph H. Greenberg

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better. — Bryan Callen

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. — Joanna Trollope

You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles. — Jack Scalia

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring. — E.B. White

When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories. — Bill Bryson

She'd been so docile that Nina had become concerned. "Maybe she's not getting enough blood to her
brain?" she'd murmured to Matthias. — Leigh Bardugo

He would take the blow so you didn't have to. — Katie Couric

Labour has to deal with the fact that the old working class doesn't exist anymore. The working class has become the middle class. And this middle class is very much prepared to support anyone who has genuinely fallen on hard times but have no sympathy with anyone abusing the system: be it those on welfare, politicians or big corporations. — Brahim Gur

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order to feed this machine and prevent its breakdown. That's why our school systems have no interest in developing models that actually require and stimulate useful values in people, such as courage or imagination or inventiveness.
None of these are taught in our schools, on the contrary the system focuses on memorizing. Memorizing is a way of overloading the mind with mental baggage it doesn't really need. Besides being horribly dull and stiffening the effect of 20 years of abundant memorization training is modern man: an unimaginative creature stuffed with useless knowledge and unable to clean his mind of this information dirt: our school systems are purposely constructed to deliver mental automatons that are unable to think creatively. — Martijn Benders

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died. — Pat Nixon

That's how you make me feel; like I'm free-falling, but still flying in the wind. — Felice Stevens

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. — Mick Jagger

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. — Stephen King