Olivine Hardness Quotes & Sayings

They didn't incarcerate the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. That's the place that was bombed. But the Japanese-American population was about 45 percent of the island of Hawaii. And if they extracted those Japanese-Americans, the economy would have collapsed. But on the mainland, we were thinly spread out up and down the West Coast. — George Takei

You plowed him with a pitchfork?"
"I sure did. My daddy didn't raise no hothouse flower, you know."
Gideon had a feeling he would have liked her daddy. — Karen Witemeyer

moonshadow, tall — Stephen King

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain. — Natasha Trethewey

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? ... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

threatened Joel, intimidated him into doing it.' But even if that were — Linwood Barclay

I miss you even
when you are here — Jennifer Clement

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. — Alexandre Dumas

Where's the sun? Sometimes I never see the sun. — Randolph Randy Camp

One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of individuality. — M. Esther Harding

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. — Joey Adams

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. — Vivienne Westwood

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing. — James Mercer

The sched_setscheduler() system call changes both the scheduling policy and the priority of the process whose process ID is specified in pid. If pid is specified as 0, the attributes of the calling process are changed. — Michael Kerrisk