Mingledorffs Inc Quotes & Sayings

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural. — Craig Clevenger

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins

So what did Sammy do?" Irv asked, his mouth full of gluten. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Twelve is the border between childhood and old. — Lindsay Eagar

I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure I am going to stink from now on, and it might just as well be in Harpers as anywhere else, I suppose. A writer is like a beanplant-he has his day and then he gets stringy. — E.B. White

When a journalist pressed Werner for a clear answer on the "Is Earth f**ked" question, he set the jargon aside and replied, "More or less."4 There was one dynamic in the model, however, that offered some hope. Werner described it as "resistance" - movements of "people or groups of people" who "adopt a certain set of dynamics that does not fit within the capitalist culture." According to the abstract for his presentation, this includes "environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by Indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups." Such mass uprisings of people - along the lines of the abolition movement and the civil rights movement - represent the likeliest source of "friction" to slow down an economic machine that is careening out of control. — Naomi Klein

The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak. — Edwidge Danticat

I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children. — Jack Kerouac