Octagonal House Quotes & Sayings

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. — Joel Salatin

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. — Robert M. Pirsig

So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear. — Marian Engel

Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both? — Rajneesh

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. — Owen Feltham

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside ... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. — Diane Hendricks

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players. — Knute Rockne

I will seek out a face, a composed, a monumental face, and will endow it with omniscience, and wear it under my dress like a talisman and then (I promise this) I will find some dingle in a wood where I can display my assortment of strange, valuable objects. I promise myself this. So I will not cry.
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves — Virginia Woolf

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him. — Lisa See

The obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks. — Judith Martin

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development. — Amartya Sen

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory. — Bill Maher

Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world. — Debasish Mridha