Ostatn My Quotes & Sayings

If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact. — Michael Pollan

Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind. — Marshall McLuhan

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes. — Benjamin Haydon

Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same. — Alan Dershowitz

Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If — A.W. Tozer

Every day is a test," Cisca replied soberly. "But we'll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing. — Todd J. McCaffrey

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight — Rich Mullins

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you. — Charles Kingsley

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles. — Harold E. Varmus

Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor. — Jeffrey K. Zeig

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns. — Honore De Balzac

Day Thirty-five just for today, i'll remember that kind words accomplish much more than harsh words. — Tom Walsh