Fougetaboudit Quotes & Sayings

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then ... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. — Chip Kelly

I think I have grown accustomed to the glass and I am terrified that when it breaks, when I am alone, I will spill out into the wide open unknown and flop around, helpless, lost,grasping for breath. — Khaled Hosseini

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. — Walter Kirn

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back. — Fred Funk

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water. — Simon Munnery

Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil somehow distilled or improved upon, as if that wild, primordial scene has been refined and bottled: eau de pomme de terre. You can smell the cold inhuman earth in it, but there's the cozy kitchen to, for the smell of potatoes is, at least by now, to us, the smell of comfort itself, a smell as blankly welcoming as spud flesh, a whiteness that takes up memories and sentiments as easily as flavors. To smell a raw potato is to stand on the very threshold of the domestic and the wild. (241) — Michael Pollan

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. — Shannon A. Thompson

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages. — S. Jay Olshansky

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start. — Dennis Eckersley

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs