Niehouse Quotes & Sayings

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. — Edward T. Hall

Adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one
that no one else could quite understand. — Eva Ibbotson

I've met the folk that have the perfect garlands and sprays and wreaths, the folk that live in Williamsburg-style houses. And I've met the folk that live at the edge of town in two-bedroom ranch houses that have Frosty the Snowman, lights playing tag around the roof, and a Rudolph stuck askew somewhere on the lawn. I'd rather sit in the home of the atter with and errant couch spring poking my derriere because, truthfully, they're glad to have me, and they never look at my shoes and wonder where I'd been before I got there. — Lisa Samson

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche. — Diane Cameron

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet. — Parker Posey

I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition. — Ulysses S. Grant

But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God? — Mark Batterson

Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet. — Buddy Bolden

Booboo, we've been over this. I can't be asleep if we're talking. — David Foster Wallace

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart. — Woody Hayes

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times ... — Max Ehrmann

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. — Mike Tyson

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long. — Mark McKinnon