Patched Sur Quotes & Sayings

He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste. — Peter Hoeg

There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us — Dar Williams

These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect - truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark. — Christopher Simpson

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. — James Surowiecki

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. — John Hanning Speke

Acting is not just impersonating your character. — Michelle Yeoh

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all. — D.H. Lawrence

When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. — Oliver Sacks

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause. — Gary DeMar

Two brothers who were also about to learn the hard way that just because I wasn't wearing my cut didn't mean that I was weak. Or that I forgot how to pull a motherfucking trigger. — T.M. Frazier

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt