Cornsacks Quotes & Sayings

What, then, is the soul of community? It is a desire to be connected with something greater than the egos of other people and the projects in which we might engage with them. Fundamentally, a successful human community is the unfolding of a spiritual dynamic. It cannot be contrived or made to happen. Rather, it erupts from our desire for the depths, and that desire is certain to constellate the shadow in ourselves and the other. — Carolyn Baker

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. — Mason Cooley

At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good. — Thomas Pynchon

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. — A.S. Byatt

In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring. — James Stephens

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal! — Rick Riordan

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have. — Jack Hyles

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is. — Gena Lee Nolin

with skull-and-crossbones painted in chicken blood. — Anthony Bourdain

All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must have been some passive co-operation on my part. Added to the fact that the Wests had only been fined £25 each for each of the charges against them, a total of £100 was all that I was worth. — Stephen Richards

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport. — Fernando Alonso

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me. — Nancy Pelosi