Powdrells Quotes & Sayings

There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began. — Daniel Levin Becker

The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things. — Bill Walsh

But as almost all objects differ in some qualities and almost all have some qualities in common, it follows that, contrary to common belief, there is no one classification absolutely essential to any group of objects.
An infinite number of classifications may be made, because every object has an infinite number of attributes, depending on the aspect we take of it. Nor is any one aspect of a thing "truer" than any other. The aspect we take depends entirely on the purpose we have in mind or the problem we wish to solve. — Henry Hazlitt

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up! — Dr. Seuss

I fell asleep and dreamed that I was a machine, mimicking the functions of life, creaking and clanking my clumsy way through a world, people too polite to say anything but giggling behind my back, and the little man who sat inside my head pulling the levers and clutches and watching the dials, he was hopelessly mad and was storing up hurts for the day-
Mandella - wake up, goddammit, your shift! — Joe Haldeman

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us. — Hermann Goring

Life is sometimes to be watched as a retarded bird, uninspired by it. It may indeed be threaded, not as a precision course but as an affirmation of its own undoing. — Dew Platt

I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites! — Ed Oxenbould

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte. — Don King

The blinding Hiroshima flash ... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film. — Paul Virilio

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V.S. Pritchett

To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in an atypically practical frame of mind, wrote, 'When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everthing else in marriage is transitory. — Daniel Klein

Why? What's wrong with being emotional about this? why is that a negative thing? Why isn't the emotional decision the right decision? asked the woman who wasn't crying. — Lisa Genova

Bob Crane's advancement to KNX is the stuff of legend. — Carol M. Ford

Sometimes, you just have to take a step back and realise what's important in your life, what you can live with, and more importantly, what you can't live without. — Lauren Conrad