Kropf Lumber Quotes & Sayings

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. — Gifford Pinchot

I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes. — P.T. Barnum

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words. — John Wesley Powell

He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved his niece. He loved his friends. He admired certain individuals. But his affections were always specific; they were not given away to all comers. This seems enough to me. — Julian Barnes

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people. — David Scott

My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. — Barry Marshall

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). — Kurt Vonnegut

Movies are too literal. — E.L. Doctorow

Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money. — John Shimkus

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. — Gus O'Donnell

Happiness comes the way the wind blows. — Mikhail Lermontov