Horned Owls Quotes & Sayings

I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear. — Nick Cave

So you see, you can't do everything alone. — Rosemary Clooney

"Close your mouth when you chew." That was my mother's big one.Why do people eat lunch together? I want to eat by myself. Chewing is one of the most revolting things to me. Wind makes me unnerved, too. — Doug Stanhope

Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. — Aldo Leopold

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it? — Zaha Hadid

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence. — Sri Aurobindo

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And — Desmond Tutu

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad. — Lionel Hampton

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless ... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant
one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care. — Agnes Smedley

Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral. — Mike DeGruy