Highbrows In A Crossword Quotes & Sayings

He'd stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle. — Cormac McCarthy

In no way did any of this discourage or deter Wilbur and Orville Wright, any more than the fact that they had had no college education, no formal technical training, no experience working with anyone other than themselves, no friends in high places, no financial backers, no government subsidies, and little money of their own. Or — David McCullough

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there are peculiar circumstances in the case, differences of temperament, divergent interests, innumerable complications of family life that excuse the apparent offence. — Honore De Balzac

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. — Jello Biafra

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not. — Dorotheus Of Gaza

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success. — Robert G. Thompson

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty. — Demetri Martin

How do you move a mountain? One spoonful of dirt at a time. Chinese proverb — Jen Wilkin