Crisply Navar Quotes & Sayings

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion — Anthony De Mello

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one. — Charlie Munger

I should pity you, did I not know, that the Mind will make friends of any thing. A Mind that can make friends of any thing - I thought of that often during the war. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics. — Jason Fuchs

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender. — Lou Barletta

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death. — Donna Tartt