Overlanders Switch Quotes & Sayings

The New York of the plays, the movies, the books; the New York of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and Vogue. It was a beacon, a spire, a beacon on top of a spire. A light, always glowing from afar, visible even from the cornfields of Iowa, the foothills of the Dakotas, the deserts of California. The swamps of Louisiana. Beckoning, always beckoning. Summoning the discontented, seducing the dreamers. Those whose blood ran too hot, and too quickly, causing them to look about at their placid families, their staid neighbors, the graves of their slumbering ancestors and say - I'm different. I'm special. I'm more. They all came to New York. — Melanie Benjamin

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense. — Antonin Dvorak

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware. — Julia Kent

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. — Beverly Cleary

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them. — Leroy Hood

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The reality is that most consumers in the developed world would rather not know where their phones and gas come from as long as the prices are low. If you know, you must act, so it is better not to know. The occasional scandal over inhuman working conditions in Chinese factories (or women's rights in Saudi Arabia) allows some liberals to feel better when a Nike or Apple announces an investigation that is quickly forgotten by the time the next shoe or gadget comes out. — Garry Kasparov

The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge. — Ernst Zundel

If needs must, she could do those things for herself-or find another man. And yet...she needed him-would mourn his loss if it came. Perhaps forever. In his present vulnerable mood, that knowledge seemed a great gift. — Diana Gabaldon

You can only know what you know. Belief is not the same as knowledge. Belief is an assumption of knowledge despite a lack of evidence. — Todd Lockwood

For all his love, he let her go. He tried his best to escape her. I had not believed that anyone could love like that. — Rosamund Hodge

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. — Cormac McCarthy

There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune. — Arthur Eddington