Scanlan Theodore Quotes & Sayings

Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,
conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,
fathers and mothers, wives and children, running to see them off
so much dust kicked up you can't see Xian-yang Bridge!
And the families pulling at their clothes, stamping feet in anger,
blocking the way and weeping
ah, the sound of their wailing rises straight up to assault heaven.
And a passerby asks, "What's going on?"
The soldier says simply, "This happens all the time.
From age fifteen some are sent to guard the north,
and even at forty some work the army farms in the west.
When they leave home, the village headman has to wrap their turbans for them;
when they come back, white-haired, they're still guarding the frontier.
The frontier posts run with blood enough to fill an ocean,
and the war-loving Emperor's dreams of conquest have still not ended. — Du Fu

Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers! — Marie Helvin

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. — Alexander Graham Bell

We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do. — Richard Bandler

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base — Kate Morton

As I love nature, as I love singing birds ... I love thee, my friend. — Henry David Thoreau

It's not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn't be able to go about their day to day lives, they would just be too freaked out, and what is left of society would crumble. — M.D. Bowden

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond De Goncourt

All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted. — Deyth Banger