Migenes Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

But, no one
can tell without cease
our human
story, and so we
lose, lose — Li-Young Lee

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. — Ron Livingston

Agriculture brought to human beings more than a new way of procuring food. It introduced a new way of thinking about the relationship between humans an nature. Hunter-gatherers considered themselves to be part of the natural world; they lived with nature, not against it. They accepted nature's twist and turns as inevitable and adapted to them as best they could. Agriculture, on the other hand, is a continuous exercise in controlling nature; it involves the taming and controlling of plants and animals, to make them servants to humans rather than equal partners in the natural world. With agriculture, I suggest, humans began to extend this idea of control over nature to other aspects of the natural world, including children. — Peter Gray

The spring is fresh and fearless
And every leaf is new,
The world is brimmed with moonlight,
The lilac brimmed with dew.

Here in the moving shadows
I catch my breath and sing -
My heart is fresh and fearless
And over-brimmed with spring. — Sara Teasdale

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. — Marc Newson

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot - or the other fist - to fall knew how to sense danger. — Rob Thomas

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable. — Jean De La Fontaine

Sighs, the rhythms of our heartbeats, contractions of childbirth, orgasms, all flow into time just as pendulum clocks placed next to one another soon beat in unison. Fireflies in a tree flash on and off as one. The sun comes up and it goes down. The moon waxes and wanes and usually the morning paper hits the porch at six thirty-five. Time — Lucia Berlin

Accept loss forever.
— Jack Kerouac

Flavor factories churn out chemical desire. We spray, squirt, and inject hundreds of millions of pounds of those chemicals on food every year, and then we find ourselves surprised and alarmed that people keep eating. We have become so talented at soaking our food in fakeness that the leading cause of preventable death - smoking - bears a troubling resemblance to the second leading cause of preventable death - obesity. — Mark Schatzker

Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me. — E.K. Blair

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life. — GG Allin