Ewens Ponds Quotes & Sayings

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy
Henry's first cousin, I believe
would come home boozed, and John never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry booze come to be sort of holy to him and with faith like that John grew up religious as a deacon. — Ken Kesey

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws. — Edward Abbey

Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway? — Bill Watterson

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty. — John Calvin

I'm obsessed with my parents. — Bryce Dallas Howard

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes. — Al Gore

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. — Augustine Of Hippo

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things. — Andrew Mason

France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target. — Francois Hollande

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything. — Tibor Kalman

Were technically their security detail. Chen, who was new, — John Scalzi

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error. — Maurice Blanchot