Chorobik Construction Quotes & Sayings

1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, — Jared Diamond

The people of Cody like you to think that Buffalo Bill was a native son. In fact, I'm awfully proud to tell you, he was an Iowa native, born in the little town of Le Claire in 1846. The people of Cody, in one of the more desperate commercial acts of this century, bought Buffalo Bill's birthplace and re-erected it in their town, but they are lying through their teeth when they hint that he was a local. And the thing is, they have a talented native son of their own. Jackson Pollock, the artist, was born in Cody. But they don't make anything of that because, I suppose, Pollock was a complete wanker when it came to shooting buffalo. — Bill Bryson

Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity. — Kathryn Hahn

A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general system of the language at the period in question. — Jean-Pierre Vernant

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror. — Mike Tyson

Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets. — Michael Lewis

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. — Virginia Woolf

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself. — Winston Churchill

I will protect even those I hate," Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. "So long as it is right. — Brandon Sanderson

On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the process bears some relation to their limited and limiting notions of either thermodynamics or God, all food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least. Indeed, those on the receiving end of such largesse are often harmed unto death by its arrival, though the effects may take years and generations to manifest themselves. — Iain M. Banks

To live without risk is to risk not living. — Pope Pius XII

Merry didn't make you a whining bitch, Talan; you were always that. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven. — Max Patrick

If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them. — Paul Orfalea

People who aren't capable of harboring our memories with integrity, shouldn't be allowed them in the first place. — Kim Holden