Rumbos Textbook Quotes & Sayings

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. — Bill Gates

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow. — Johnny Mercer

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike. — Catherynne M Valente

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet. — Rainn Wilson

Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead. — Joan Larkin

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. — Jack Kemp

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are. — Dan Miller

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. — Cathy Guisewite

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you. — George R R Martin

One benefit of government work? Frequent flyer miles. Seriously, I get bumped up about every flight. Still not as nice as the director's private jet though... — Nathan Edmondson

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion? — Sorin Cerin

When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually. — John Densmore

There is no better way of life in the world than that of the Australian. I firmly believe this. The grumbling, growling, cursing, profane, laughing, beer drinking, abusive, loyal-to-his-mates Australian is one of the few free men left on this earth. He fears no one, crawls to no one, bludges on no one, and acknowledges no master. Learn his way. Learn his language. Get yourself accepted as one of him; and you will enter a world that you never dreamed existed. And once you have entered it, you will never leave it. — John O'Grady