Passas Thessaloniki Quotes & Sayings

The pioneers and their new Indian partners amply displayed the American penchant for technological prowess, developing shore-to-shore windlasses and flatboat ferries to cross the rivers, innovations as vital to the country's progress as the steam engine and the telegraph. America's default toward massive waste and environmental havoc was also, and hilariously, perfected along the trail. Scammed by the merchants of Independence and St. Joe into overloading their wagons, the pioneers jettisoned thousands of tons of excess gear, food, and even pianos along the ruts, turning vast riverfront regions of the West into America's first and largest Superfund sites. On issue after issue - disease, religious strife, the fierce competition for water - the trail served as an incubator for conflicts that would continue to reverberate through American culture until our own day. — Rinker Buck

If I can't act, I would go to college and maybe be a veterinarian. — Megan Charpentier

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Shut the fuck up." I turn to look at the minister because I know he heard me. "Sorry. — Georgia Cates

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. — Edward Hoagland

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers. — George Clooney

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. — William James

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens. — Geoffrey Beene

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? — Karen Marie Moning

Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors. — Mattie Stepanek

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better. — Aidan Gillen