Naturally And Artificially Prepared Quotes & Sayings

It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives. — Erich Segal

Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance. — Thomas Pynchon

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. — Tony Visconti

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now. — Elvis Presley

For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness? — John Steinbeck

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people. — Henri Nouwen

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked. — Debbie Stabenow

Here in Southern California we San Diegans have a saying. Hawaiians wouldn't appreciate it, but we say it nonetheless. We go outside, look around, and then say, "Just another day in paradise." The saying fits most every day of the year. In San Diego, near the ocean, it's never bitterly cold and it's never oppressively hot. I can appreciate the realities of the nonsublime weather in certain areas of the country. I spent a few years in Chicago for college, before heading back to San Diego. Then I returned to the Chicago area for two years of graduate school. I have figured that in the five years (sixty months) that I spent in the Midwest, forty months consisted of glacial winter. Another seventeen months were hot, airless summer. Perhaps three months over the entire five years were pleasant. Maybe even a day or two could have been described as idyllic. San Diego is different from that. Every five years we have about sixty months of heavenly weather. — Anonymous

You can only get over your fears if you attack them head on, — Mika Hakkinen

Io Omega, this is the Fawkes Faux Fox. We're leaving on a harvesting run. Not going far and won't be but a few minutes. Open Tartarus Gate, would you? — Richard Roberts

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you. — Bob Seger