Longvall Quotes & Sayings

Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is not a common phenomenon, and never has been? — Mark Helprin

The life we lead, in other words, leaves its mark in the form of enduring changes in the complex circuitry of the brain-footprints of the experiences we have had, the actions we have taken. This is neuroplasticity. As Mike Merzenich asserted, the mechanisms of neuroplasticity "account for cortical contributions to our idiosyncratic behavioral abilities and, in extension, for the geniuses, the fools, and the idiot savants among us. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum, — Larry Page

Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top. — Moffat Machingura

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. — Arthur Balfour

For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Gardening is the best therapy in the world. — C. Z. Guest

People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways. — Ilona Andrews

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. — Sarah Palin

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea. — Crispian Mills

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other. — Sherman Alexie

Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible. — Meg Cabot

So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of decorous dumps, in which case he is for it, having had a bellyful of the other way. — Ben Fountain

Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. to the rebirth of real men. — Keorapetse Kgositsile