Ferum Shop Quotes & Sayings

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers. — John Mearsheimer

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are. — Janet Montgomery

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool. — Niels Arden Oplev

I am a queen because I know how to govern myself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. — Caitlin Doughty

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not. — Bertolt Brecht

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude. — Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder's mask. — Robert M. Pirsig

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot
the sail he has seen. — Jean Genet

When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education. — Edward Gibbon