Ispraak Quotes & Sayings

Hey," said Locke, scratching his stubble absently with his quill. "That sounds suspiciously like wisdom, damn your eyes. Why must you always flounce about being wiser than me?" "Doesn't require much conscious effort. — Scott Lynch

the goal of a mapping effort isn't to complete an artifact, but to address the challenges the diagrams help discover and understand. Diagrams — James Kalbach

I want leisure to read - an immense amount. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky. — Terry Pratchett

There's more to life than listening to rock music. — Frank Black

It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like. — Katherine Boo

In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with what they put into the air about them, each knowing what the other was saying, and having strength one from the other, for they had been learning through forty years of being together, and their minds were one. — Richard Llewellyn

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. — R. H. Tawney

It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for. — Hunter S. Thompson

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles. — Don Kardong

New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds. — Anthony Pratt

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. — Krista Allen