Schimka Towing Quotes & Sayings

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. — Jamaica Kincaid

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. — Henry Petroski

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished! — Bill Johnson

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it. — Elias Canetti

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. — Rick Moody

If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax. — Hamza Yusuf

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. — Lars Peter Hansen

You can't edit a blank page — Nora Roberts

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget. — Kristine Lilly