Gadgeteer Popeil Quotes & Sayings

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability. — Lee Ellis

You are in love, at a point where pride and apprehension scuffle within you. Part of you wants time to slow down: for this, you say to yourself, is the best period of your whole life. I am in love, I want to savour it, study it, lie around in languor with it; may today last forever. This is your poetical side. However, there is also your prose side, which urges time not to slow down but hurry up. How do you know this is love, your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer, it's only been around for a few weeks, a few months. You won't know it's the real thing unless you (and she) still feel the same in, oh, a year or so at least; that's the only way to prove you aren't living a dragonfly mistake. Get through this bit, however much you enjoy it, as fast as possible; then you'll be able to find out whether or not you're really in love. — Julian Barnes

No! You mean you're the late CHarlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude. — Mark Twain

He wandered here and there over rolling hills.
He never saw the ocean but
dreamed of it often enough. — Patrick DeWitt

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance. — Victor Hugo

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — P.D. James

Love burns across the infinitude. — Nicholas Sparks

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. — Joseph Goebbels

Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy. — Katherine Applegate