Elmo Putney Quotes & Sayings

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off. — Friedrich Nietzsche

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. — Tom Stoppard

I was broken. I didn't need to break anyone else with me. — Tijan

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the
distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin. — Soren Kierkegaard

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed.
"Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for? — Simone Elkeles

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this. — Bennett Cerf

Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun — Kahlil Gibran

Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young — Ray Kurzweil

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing. — Jonathan Powell

If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that. — Ingrid Newkirk

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. — Eli Whitney

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. — Seth Berkley

(...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no. — Margaret Atwood