Ink Pots Banff Quotes & Sayings

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H.P. Lovecraft

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process. — Matthew Desmond

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up. — Tom Brady

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'. — Napoleon Hill

I have been in recent years the author of a bestiary and director of some atlas projects; I've written criticism, editorials, reports from a few front lines, letters, a great many political essays ... , more personal stuff, essays for artists' books, and more ... Nonfiction is the whole realm from investigative journalism to prose poems, from manifestos to love letters, from dictionaries to packing lists. — Rebecca Solnit

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion. — Stephen Charnock

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision. — Eric Ries

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly. — Pat Mastelotto

What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from. — P. J. O'Rourke

But nearly three decades earlier, World War I had also been heralded as the event that would break the back of race prejudice. "With thousands of your sons in the camps and in France, out of this conflict you must expect nothing less than the enjoyment of full citizenship rights - the same as are enjoyed by every other citizen," President Woodrow Wilson, a native Virginian, vowed to American blacks — Margot Lee Shetterly