Insectarium Missoula Quotes & Sayings

I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be. — Arlene Dickinson

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing. — Alan Lightman

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! — Charles M. Schulz

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor. — Randy Newman

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it. — Mary Jo Putney

The Long Way Home
Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?
Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around? — Merrit Malloy

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield — Julia Quinn

Dale Earnhardt's opinion in the garage area is like God's to us. — Ernie Irvan

There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There's always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That's what dignifies the song. Songs don't dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — Leonard Cohen

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose. — Avi

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. — Neil Young

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. — John Ortberg

Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't. — Peter Gray

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. — Aristotle.