Machado Dodgers Quotes & Sayings

Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past. — Pat Williams

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. — Mortimer J. Adler

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction. — Heather O'Neill

I didn't even have time to close my eyes. — Stephenie Meyer

Every rose has poetry in her heart and is eager to tell you when you are in love. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don't need a romance to complete a story about a woman — Greta Gerwig

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. — Sigmund Freud

When science has killed god, science will be god. — Rick Julian

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights. — Stephen Kinzer

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent." — St. Catherine Of Siena

Time is not measured by the years that you live
But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give-
And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one
To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone
That would brighten the life or lighten the load
Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road-
So what does it matter how long we may live
If as long as we live we unselfishly give. — Helen Steiner Rice

[N]ow that growing your own (food, dope, hair, younameit) is hip," wrote the author of an essay widely reprinted in alternative newspapers, "it's time to resurrect the Dope of the Depression - Homebrew." Homemade beer inspired "good vibrations" and a "pleasant high." Unlike the rest of "plastic, mass-produced shit" of modern America, homebrew represented "an exercise of craft" and empowered the "politically oriented" to retaliate against "Augustus [sic] Busch and the other fascists pigs who [were] ripping off the Common Man." "If you're looking for a cheap drunk," added the beer adviser, "go back to Gussie Busch. But if you dig the good vibes from using something you make yourself, plus an improvement in quality over the commercial shit," brew on, brothers and sisters, brew on. — Maureen Ogle

He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. — Anonymous