Cordwood Measure Quotes & Sayings

You're going to be sorry you didn't open the door, because I just crawled along that piss-covered floor and now I'm going to hug you. — Jamie McGuire

When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite know existed, so that by the time I close the book, and return to my own reality, my world is expanded and has become a little larger and a little more complicated. — Anthony Marra

Let me tell you something, missy. You young maidens now days get misty-eyed thinking about true love and the fathomless adoration you will share. It's not like that. Real love is looking at someone and knowing that you wouldn't mind waking up to their bad breath for the next century, and you are fine with them seeing you before you brush your hair and fix your face for the day. Elle — K.M. Shea

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones. — Seth Godin

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows — Hope Mirrlees

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years ... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory. — David Stoddart

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment. — Doug Ose

In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight - — Lewis Carroll

physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned. — John J. Ratey

Cast out thy Jonah
every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. — Frederic Reynolds

Give generously - and receive graciously. — Valorie Burton

As followers, we do not claim to have arrived at the destination, nor need we distinguish ourselves from others who are at different stages of the journey. Belonging, believing, and behaving can all be interpreted as aspects of following. Churches that are committed to following Jesus can then welcome fellow travelers unreservedly and unconditionally. But their ethos is one of following, learning, changing, growing, and moving forward. — Stuart Murray