Octavarium Quotes & Sayings

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home. — Benton MacKaye

As your soul sails life's stormy sea,
only courage and love will set you free. — Ian Macgill

He hadn't spent a lifetime pushing women away only to be taken down by a piece of pumpkin pie. — Kele Moon

If I ever offer to plan your wedding or sweet sixteen or something, do yourself a favor and run away screaming. — Gwen Hayes

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there. — Frances Mayes

Tan Chau lies on the Thanh Hoa canal, which sings with freedom as it flows into the Mekong River on its way to the sea. Only the wind and the water, which you cannot imprison, are truly free. — James D. Redwood

When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers. — L.M. Montgomery

Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar and had not minded. — H.P. Lovecraft

I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up. — Elvis Presley

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt

The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates for the loss of meaning atheism occasioned. Enraptured with progress, we deepened our collective worship of science. As incredulity to metanarratives rose, so did a massive publicity campaign to convince us of the omnipotence of science. — Adam Leith Gollner