Holowach Shark Quotes & Sayings

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene. — Matthew Scully

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important. — Zachary Quinto

Life has been dealt to us flawed; doesn't mean we have to like it all the time, but live it and make the best of it to our greatest ability. — A.R. Voss

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. — Barbara Kingsolver

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa Of Avila

I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. — Robert Duvall

Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself. We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers - that is to say, as markets. — Neil Postman

Touring isn't traveling. Everyone should know that. And I would absolutely recommend a month of solo touring - that is, no driver, no merch person, no tour manager - to anyone in the position to do such a thing. But just once. You grow a lot in those situations, like when you spend a Christmas alone (which I also recommend). But, again, only once. That will be enough. — Wooden Wand

But it seems to be a law of human constitution that those that deserve shall not have and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having. — Mark Twain