Gasolier Tank Quotes & Sayings

In actual practice, someone is regarded as being "too liberal" if his conscience permits something that my conscience does not permit. — Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. — Hermann Hesse

A strong back is a big help but not even the strongest back was built for that treatment, and there combine not just at the kidneys, ad rill down the thighs and up the spine and athwart the shoulders, the ticklish weakness of gruel or water, and an aching that increases in geometric progression, and at length, in the small of the spine, a literal sensation of yielding, buckling, splintering, and breakage: and all of this, even though the mercy of nature has strengthened and hardened your flesh and anesthetized your nerves and your powers of reflection and imagination, reaches in time the brain and the more mirrorlike nerves, and thereby makes itself much worse than before. — James Agee

It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird. — Sid Vicious

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. — Renee Zellweger

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther. — Sharon Gless

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. — Richard Lindzen

We'll have to get you a sword," I said. "When funds allow."
Snorri shook his head. "An axe for me. Swords trick you into thinking you can defend. With an axe all you can do is attack. That's what my father named me. Snorri. It means 'attack.'" He lifted the axe above his head. "Men think they can defend against me - but when I knock, they open. — Mark Lawrence

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul. — Lori Lansens

The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders. — Swami Vivekananda

When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed. — Orson Scott Card

For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes. — Ai Yazawa

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you. — Karin Slaughter