Hippeas Quotes & Sayings

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them. — Suzanne La Follette

Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people. — John Darnielle

It turns out, that men, when they're taking care of their business, they're not fully attending to the task at hand, but, I'm sure there's an evolutionary explanation for this, if you give them a target, they will aim. — Richard Thaler

Time passed, and a morning came when Grace woke up at Yeotown feeling, if not quite happy, at least without a stifling blanket of unhappiness. This blanket had hitherto weighed upon her like something physical, so that there had been days when she had hardly been able to rise from under it and get out of bed. — Nancy Mitford

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. — Johnny Cash

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt. — Sylvia Plath

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is! — Norman Wisdom

Some people take lives. Other people save lives. — Brandon Sanderson

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool. — Abigail Washburn

bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's — Douglas E. Richards

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me. — Shane Claiborne