Shadbones Quotes & Sayings

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. — Andrew Nikiforuk

Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down. — R.A. Nelson

A bum stood at the Lucky Market right in front of Artesia & Blossom. He was begging for money. He looked pretty pathetic, dressed in rancid, oily clothes. He smelled like cigarettes and urine. "Can you spare a dime?" he would ask. People would shake their heads or walk around him. He was getting nowhere. Two hours went by, no money, not a cent. "Please, a dime!" cried the bum. A middle-aged man walked by him, heard his plea and laid upon him a mint new dime. "Thank you, sir! Thank you!" shouted the bum. Dime in hand, the bum limped over to a phone booth and called in the airstrike. — Henry Rollins

At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit' ... I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in ... expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) ... — Vaclav Havel

The small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
numbering the units in each group;
the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise — Marianne Moore

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day. — John Green

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence. — Voltaire

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue. — Mason Cooley

No one has a patent on the truth. Find yours. — Debbie Miller

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. — Ilya Ehrenburg