Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith Quotes & Sayings

A twitch at the controls could swerve the cat', but the driver's hands could not twitch because the monster that built the tractor, the monster that sent the tractor out, had somehow got into the driver's hands, into his brain and muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest. He could not see the land as it was, he could not smell the land as it smelled; his feet did not stamp the clods or feel the warmth and power of the earth. He sat in an iron seat and stepped on iron pedals. He could not cheer or beat or curse or encourage the extension of his power, and because of this he could not cheer or whip or curse or encourage himself. He did not know or own or trust or beseech the land. If a seed dropped did not germinate, it was nothing. If the young thrusting plant withered in drought or drowned in a flood of rain, it was no more to the driver than to the tractor. He — John Steinbeck

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes. — George R R Martin

No, I'm quite certain. And for the past two hundred years, I've dreamed of nothing but your lips. I would wait another two hundred years if you demanded, and I would spend every minute of every waking hour, begging you for my sweet relief. — Ashlan Thomas

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice. — Ambrose Bierce

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation. — Diablo Cody

I couldn't escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain. — Samantha Summers

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. — G.K. Chesterton

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state. — J. Lynn

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple. — Sarah Dessen

Where shall he find, in foreign land,
So lone a lake, so sweet a strand!
There is no breeze upon the fern,
No ripple on the lake,
Upon her eyry nods the erne,
The deer has sought the brake;
The small birds will not sing aloud,
The springing trout lies still,
So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud,
That swathes, as with a purple shroud — Walter Scott