Doskow Silver Quotes & Sayings

The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish. — Guy Davenport

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. — Henry David Thoreau

Life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder. — J.D. Robb

I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again. — Tiger Woods

The discovery of America was the foundational event of the Scientific Revolution. It not only taught Europeans to favour present observations over past traditions, but the desire to conquer America also obliged Europeans to search for new knowledge at breakneck speed. If they really wanted to control the vast new territories, they had to gather enormous amounts of new data about the geography, climate, flora, fauna, languages, cultures and history of the new continent. Christian Scriptures, old geography books and ancient oral traditions were of little help. — Yuval Noah Harari

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. — Alain Ducasse

I'm aware that I should end a joke with the good part, I choose not too. — Daniel Tosh

I have a good ear for languages. — Harry Dean Stanton

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life! — Wendy Kopp

Sam nodded. "I was right about you. — L.L. Collins