Outofedenwalk Quotes & Sayings

When the automobile was made affordable to the masses, people moved further away from work and further away from stores. While transportation speed increased, transportation distance increased proportionally, keeping transportation time constant. — Jacob Lund Fisker

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. — Ray Bradbury

Last Christmas they sat beside the hearths
Secure, together, cracking roast chestnuts

Or stale jokes about holies and ivies
As red wines cooled down another hot year

Today, even the vines threaten to stream
The streets with banners of another fire. — Jack Mapanje

This family knew that Dresden was gone. Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Still-they had opened for business, had polished the glass and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca The Younger

She didn't want to handle him. She didn't want anything to do with him - this man with his cold, intense eyes and clipped speech, this stranger, this Yankee. He made her feel like a rabbit facing a cobra: terrified, but fascinated at the same time. He tried to hide his ruthlessness behind smooth, cosmopolitan manners, but Evie had no doubts about the real nature of the man.

He wanted her. He intended to have her. And he wouldn't care if he destroyed her in the taking. — Linda Howard

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured. — Gavin Bryars

In other news, a man in a tan jacket, holding a deerskin suitcase, was seen. I don't remember anything about him or why this was news, but it had seemed important a the time. I wrote it down: 'Say the important thing about the man in the tan jacket.' What was it? What was I supposed to say? — Joseph Fink

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May

I hope to repair certain important connections burned through by artificial speed, by inattentiveness. I walk, as everyone does, to see what lies ahead. I walk to remember. — Paul Salopek

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity. — Alfonso Ribeiro

Have no fear for the lord will put your enemies to shame". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. — Victoria Woodhull

There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig. — St John Morris

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion. — Mahatma Gandhi