Peddocks Island Quotes & Sayings

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection. — John Grant

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. — Richard Dawkins

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal. — Joan Baez

All these stupid rocks," I say, "what's your goal?"
"This isn't about getting something done," Denny says. "It's about the doing, you know, the process."
"But what are you going to do with all these rocks?"
And Denny says, "I don't know until I collect enough."
"But what's enough?" I say.
"I don't know, dude," Denny says, "I just want the days of my life to add up to something. — Chuck Palahniuk

The greatest sin of our generation is that we have forgotten who we are, and that is what has cost us most. We cry out in disbelief and wonder where our sense of unity has gone. — Jordan Ervin

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics. — William Butler Yeats

But explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch - even if you can write one of Virginia Woolf's long mellifluous musical sentences about the subtle subjugation of women in the snow with your willie. — Rebecca Solnit

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses. — Tamara Mellon

we are so money-rich and so life-poor. — Frank Herbert

The two thought themselves alone. But all the while, one watched with the night-wide eyes of love. While they paced the pebbled paths between the silent flowers' spiked arrays, sage Thyme spied upon each pale sigh, peeping between bloom and leaf. And while they sat side by side and hand in hand on the stained stone bench beneath the spreading wisteria, Thyme watched unwinking from the midnight face of the mute sundial. And while they lay lazy on the soft grass, swearing the sweet oaths of love and longing, and whispering as they parted that though long lives might pass like a night and the New Sun sunder the centuries, yet never should they ever part, Thyme crept and cried, counting seconds that spilled with the sand from the hourglass, and scenting the soft breezes that cooled the child's burning cheek with his sad spice. The — Gene Wolfe

The atmosphere is only about .035 percent carbon dioxide, — Cynthia Stokes Brown

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! — Anonymous

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca The Younger

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures. — Wynton Marsalis

I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong. — Stephen Young