Oyster Roast Quotes & Sayings

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx

What if you should forget yourself in the excitement and just peddle straight through the park and out the other end?' she warns. 'If you keep your feet on the pedals and don't stop, where might you end up?'

The idea appeals to Maud more than she can say. She doesn't want to know where she may 'end up'. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Time and task were both disorienting, for if you were to remove everything from our lives that depends on electricity to function, homes and offices would become no more than the chambers and passages of limestone caves- simple shelter from wind and rain, far less useful than the first homes at Plymouth Plantation or a wigwam. No way to keep out cold, or heat, for long. No way to preserve food, or to cook it. The things that define us, quiet as rock outcrops - the dumb screens and dials, the senseless clicks of on/off switches- without their purpose, they lose the measure of their beauty and we are left alone in the dark with countless useless things. — Jane Brox

One day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies — Zooey Deschanel

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope. — Cecelia Ahern

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded. — Richard Dawkins

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well. — Pawan Mishra

The villain's censure is extorted praise. — Alexander Pope

Mimir sighed foam. "My regular minions never ask so many questions." Blitz coughed. "Actually, we do, boss. You just ignore us. — Rick Riordan

Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it. — Andre Vltchek

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis. — Ben Bernanke