Cordts Handyman Quotes & Sayings

Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt. — Jim Trelease

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing. — Shailene Woodley

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. — Malala Yousafzai

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. — Robert Battle

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much. — Julie London

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew. — Melanie Mayron

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up. — Jay Leno

What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now. — Al Sharpton

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. — Umberto Eco

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him. — Henry Ward Beecher

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice. — Joshua Bell

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?' — Guy Scott

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith