Estabrooks Garden Quotes & Sayings

I don't think a muscle would dare show up on my body. What would be the purpose? I'd have them slacking off in no time. — Nageeba Davis

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ... — Carol Emshwiller

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms. — Nathan Lowell

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower. — Vince Staples

As she'd left, I'd glanced at her gun.
This time, when she'd pointed it at me, she'd flicked the safety on. If that wasn't true love, I don't know what was. — Brandon Sanderson

Indeed, as Peter Whittle recounts, during World War II efforts to solve the question so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts ... that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage. — Brian Christian

I want us to see a resurgence, a revival, a renaissance of so many of the wonderful attributes and values that Africa has. You know we have had a jurisprudence, a penology in Africa which is not retributive. We've had a jurisprudence which was restorative. When people quarreled in the traditional setting, the main intention was not to punish the miscreant but to restore good relations. For Africa is concerned, or was concerned, about relationship, about the wholeness of relationship. That is something we can bring to the world, a world that is polarized, a world that is fragmented, a world that destroys people. — Desmond Tutu

Alexis, I love you. — Kalayna Price

When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel. — Amy Cohen

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I was trying to go ... somewhere," Jace said. "But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institute. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-I should have been the one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it- it had never been like that for me. — Cassandra Clare

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions. — Margery Allingham

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning. — Kent Beck

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off. — Randall Mann

Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions) — Myra Jolivet