Jillene Overby Quotes & Sayings

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. — Christopher Gist

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. — Dale Carnegie

The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows. — Rikki Ducornet

Faith is accepting that everything, including who you are, develops in its perfect order. — Lisa A. Mininni

My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one! — Stonewall Jackson

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this. — Tom Hodgkinson

The only thing better than living on a mac, is living at Hogwarts. — Bing Gordon

You know what they say - love is blind, — Tommy Wiseau

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal. — Sue Merrell

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There is no room for doubt and little time — A.O. Scott

In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power. — Leo Tolstoy