Hooved Quotes & Sayings

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric. — Michael Crichton

Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time — Terry Pratchett

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment. — Toby Litt

The more I heard, the less I knew. — Sebastian Faulks

The greatest homage to truth is to use it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. — Elias Canetti

Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats
"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"
and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to me that your relatives would make you insane than some random hooved mammal, however ecologically destructive it might be. What if trolls evolved from goats? Or, no, better yet, what if goats evolved from trolls? Or were domesticated from trolls by human shepherds? And the trolls despise their domesticated cousins as a disgrace to the once-proud troll race, (much as I assume wolves would despise Chihuahuas if they ever gave them much thought) and eat them at every opportunity. — Ursula Vernon

I love you as one loves certain dark things - Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII — Cassandra Clare

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman. — Wolfgang Puck

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical, — Landon Liboiron

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores — John Keats

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along. — Rose Byrne

those who attended the lecture course supported my views. The consequence of it all was that, a few days later, I was assigned to a regiment then stationed at Munich and given a position there as 'instruction officer.' At that time the spirit of discipline was rather weak-among those troops. It — Adolf Hitler

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry. — Ralph Chaplin