Derkins Calvin Quotes & Sayings

The ocean talks to you. Especially at night. Whispering voices that never let up, not even when you sleep. — Matt De La Pena

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got. — John Ruskin

Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

God is creativity, not a Creator. — Rajneesh

The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business. — Ursula K. Le Guin

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself. — Pythagoras

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. — Will Durant

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray — Cassandra Clare

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation. — John Steinbeck

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that. — John Raese