Happyand Quotes & Sayings

The Marine Corps assumes maximum ignorance from its enlisted folks. It assumes that no one taught you anything about physical fitness, personal hygiene, or personal finances. I took mandatory classes about balancing a checkbook, saving, and investing. When I came home from boot camp with my fifteen-hundred-dollar earnings deposited in a mediocre regional bank, a senior enlisted marine drove me to Navy Federal - a respected credit union - and had me open an account. When I caught strep throat and tried to tough it out, my commanding officer noticed and ordered me to the doctor. We — J.D. Vance

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. — Bell Hooks

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? — Charles Stross

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up. — Charlotte Arnold

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles ... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. — Hans Hofmann

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables. — Salma Hayek

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. — William Walton

I still feel 30, except when I try to run. — Bob Newhart

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry