Clampett Mansion Quotes & Sayings

We ignore the blackness of outer space and pay attention to the stars, especially if they seem to order themselves into constellations. "Common as the air" meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver flow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deserving - no, demanding - of love. Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing, or Fiona lying in her bed turning air into Fiona. — Neal Stephenson

Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. — W.E.B. Du Bois

It was heartbreaking when you recognized that moment when pieces of your reality turned into memories. — J. Sterling

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. — James Boswell

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. — John Philip Sousa

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment. — John Steinbeck

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. — Criss Jami

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. — Andrew Solomon

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal. — Osamu Dazai

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever. — M. Fethullah Gulen

For every man there are certain words that are as if closer and more intimate to him than any others. And often, unexpectedly, in some remote, forsaken backwater, some deserted desert, one meets a man whose warming conversation makes you forget the pathlessness of your paths, the homelessness of your nights, and the contemporary world full of people's stupidity, of deceptions for deceiving man. Forever and always an evening spent in this way will vividly remain with you, and all that was and that took place then will be retained by the faithful memory: who was there, and who stood where, and what he was holding
the walls, the corners, and every trifle. — Nikolai Gogol

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody - human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird. — Sharon Gannon

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can't live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we're distressed and go to therapy, our therapist's job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn't come with plots; it's messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can't have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense. — John Dufresne