Mark Twain Regionalism Quotes & Sayings

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that. — Lin Pardey

The one I love is the son of the one I hate!
-Juliet p. 75 — William Shakespeare

Every film, every person have something incrediable. The question is how deeper can you go? — Deyth Banger

The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called 'value in use;' the other, 'value in exchange.' The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water; but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods — Adam Smith

Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot — Kate Quinn

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down. — Fareed Zakaria

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily ... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases. — John Mackey

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour. — Charles Koch

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. — Mark Haddon

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it? — Jeff Foxworthy

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. — William Hazlitt

Moreover, the question at hand concerns modes of operation or schemata of action, and not directly the subjects (or persons) who are their authors or vehicles. It concerns an operational logic whose models may go as far back as the age-old ruses of fishes and insects that disguise or transform themselves in order to survive, and which has in any case been concealed by the form of rationality currently dominant in Western culture. — Michel De Certeau