Jerahmeel Quotes & Sayings

Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money. — Donald Ray Pollock

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. — Will Self

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't. — Mary Roach

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. — Malorie Blackman

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready. — John Amaechi

I look through the spaces between the iron steps at the colorless flow of the river down below, transporting chunks of ice like white clouds. In a distress that lasts an instant, I seem to be feeling what she feels: that every void continues in the void, every gap, even a short one opens another gap, every chasm empties into the infinite abyss. — Italo Calvino

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children. — Bill Nelson

The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis. — Norman Davies

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject. — Allan McLeod Cormack