Growers Edge Quotes & Sayings

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born. — Tom Waits

They'd read about this in class, how stereotypes distorted, affected, reflected reality. Asians were peaceful. Gays were nonviolent. As were women. Blacks (and sometimes Mexicans) were rarely accused of hate crimes for a number of reasons, but the underlying logic was that they were naturally predisposed to violence and mischief, and so seldom was any attack on whites motivated by hate. Contrarily, it was extremely easy to claim, and prove, that a white perpetrated a hate crime. In fact, popular opinion among the liberals was that conservatives were motivated by hate in everything they did wrong: hiring practices, legal negotiations, and any criminal activity affecting blacks, Mexicans, or gays. If Denver decided that Daron had intended to send a message of terror, then Daron's every denial must have sounded like an attempt to protect his co-conspirators. — T. Geronimo Johnson

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. — Lee Daniels

I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair — E. Lockhart

General Joseph O. Mauborgne, who became Chief Signal Officer in October, 1937. Mauborgne had long been interested in cryptology. In 1914, as a young first lieutenant, he achieved the first recorded solution of a cipher known as the Playfair, then used by the British as their field cipher. He described his technique in a 19-page pamphlet that was the first publication on cryptology issued by the United States government. In World War I, he put together several cryptographic elements to create the only theoretically unbreakable cipher, and promoted the first automatic cipher machine, with which the unbreakable cipher was associated. He was among the first to send and receive radio messages in airplanes. As — David Kahn

Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever. — Neville Figgis

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. — Fanny Burney

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons. — Bob Hope

What before seemed a ... frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. — Bill Hicks

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. — William Ellery Channing

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. — James M. Barrie

In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role. — Alexander Kotov

Or people who have one baby and go buy a minivan ... how big is your baby? — Chelsea Handler