Helland Construction Quotes & Sayings

The next day, a dead turtle was left on my doorstep as a warning. I couldn't figure out as a warning for what, and I guess whoever was watching me picked up on that, because the next morning there was another dead turtle, but this one had several sheets of paper glued to it's back leg. The pieces of paper contained a long footnoted explanation of all the symbolism involved. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. The turtle was the "turtle of inquisitiveness" and the cheese smeared on it's shell meant something, and the little cowboy boots on its feet meant something. Everything about this animal meant something apparently to whoever sent it. I still didn't get what it was all about. The next morning there was no turtle. Somebody just shot at me from the bushes. — John Swartzwelder

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. — Plutarch

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time. — Joe Manganiello

While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be. — Bob Beasley

A man should smell of sweat, not flowers. — George R R Martin

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention. — Marshall McLuhan

All who joy would win
Must share it
Happiness was born a twin. — George Gordon Byron