Scrimshaw Knife Quotes & Sayings

Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others. — James Vila Blake

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die. — Benjamin Carson

At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of the historian's delights and, even more, his sorrow. If we see someone doing something for the last time, even just eating a piece of bread, this activity becomes wondrously profound. We participate in the transmutation of the ephemeral into the sacramental. We have inklings of eras during which such a sight was an everyday occurrence. — Ernst Junger

Scary with you is better than scary without you — Tamora Pierce

It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft. — Terry Pratchett

The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn. — Jeff Baxter

And so we are like flowers; and bloom only, when the sun, kisses us. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied. — Marilyn Manson

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred — Demi Lovato

The captain scowled at her. Then he threw Petey to the floor with a coarse oath, knocking the scrimshaw and the carving knife from Petey's hands.
Petey gasped for breath as Captain Horn hovered over him, wearing the look of a man who'd just been struck in the noggin by a yardarm and was itching to tear apart the one who'd done it. — Sabrina Jeffries

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations. — Mikhail Gorbachev

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.
Julia to Avis — Joan Reardon

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world. — Louis Farrakhan

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun. — Cyril Connolly