Hunkeler Eye Quotes & Sayings

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn't let go, even after you've closed the book. — Tasha Alexander

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic. — Alvin Toffler

Wit doesn't make girls pretty. — Jeanne Calment

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures. — Gary Snyder

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight. — David Bowie

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization
the Urim and Thummim of respectability ... So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Down to the 23rd page of double dutch! — Sharon M. Draper

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there. — Brenda Lee

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all. — Steve Earle

I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist." — Marc Ian Barasch

He was the khan of Wolves and he feared no man. They would pay dearly for his skin. — Conn Iggulden