Patteriol Quotes & Sayings

There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck. — John McPhee

The Night Is Darkening Round Me
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.
Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go. — Emily Bronte

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent. — James Ira Thomas Jones

If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault. — Alexander Lukashenko

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential. — Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is the greatest element in human life. — Euginia Herlihy

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy. — Thomas Moore

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.
"It's green!" Nico said with delight. — Rick Riordan

Get with it, or get left behind. — Eli

Is there more about the world I don't know? Like, does Superman exist?" I asked. "Vampires and werewolves roam the earth. It's a possibility," he answered. I smiled as I asked, "Could you kick his ass?" "Absolutely," he replied. "Cocky," I muttered. — Kristen Ashley