Quotes & Sayings About Scrooge Stave 5

If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people. — Nellie McKay

I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church. — Indro Montanelli

Like a needle jabbed into your arm, reality stings you, hurting you more than your skin and flesh. You realize that you're nobody. The electricity's gone out, the darkness is your sudden enemy...you have to protect yourself from the dark. Otherwise the world goes out, along with the artificial lights from the power plant. The night once again disintegrates into atoms, changes from cultivated to wild, fitting itself afterward into its original black hues, its cat skin. — Georgi Tenev

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. — John Calvin

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong ... I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things. — Tom Waits

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else. — Giacomo Leopardi

The fatter we are, the more likely we are to get cancer and the more likely we are to become demented as we age. — Gary Taubes

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow