Shallop Mayflower Quotes & Sayings

A book floated down the Amper River.
A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held
it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood
waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water.
"How about a kiss, Saumensch?" he said. — Markus Zusak

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. — Ewan McGregor

When chemists artificially produce an amino acid or a sugar they almost always synthesize only a single product at a time, which they manage by carefully controlling the experimental conditions for the selected reaction, such as temperature and the concentrations of the various ingredients, to optimize the synthesis of their target compound. This is not an easy task and requires careful control of many different conditions inside customized flasks, condensers, separation columns, filtration devices and other elaborate chemical apparatus. Yet every living cell in your body is continually synthesizing thousands of distinct biochemicals within a reaction chamber filled with just a few millionths of a microliter of fluid.*7 How do all those diverse reactions proceed concurrently? And how is all this molecular action orchestrated within a microscopic cell? These questions are the focus of the new science of systems biology; but it is fair to say that the answers remain mysterious! — Johnjoe McFadden

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. — Bret Easton Ellis

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. — Paul Eldridge

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it. — Will Ferrell

The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end — Jack Goldstone

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein

Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back. — Colin Powell

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle. — Trina Paulus

f While Mr. William Bradford was absent in the shallop, his wife Dorothy accidentally fell overboard from the Mayflower at Cape Cod and was drowned. — James Thacher

What is memory but a story about how we have lived? — Mark Doty

Real wealth is discretionary time. Money is simply fuel for your life. You can always make another dollar, but you can't make another minute. Don't let the pursuit of money erode your wealth. — Alan Weiss

Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury. — Andrew Symonds

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it. — Dylan Thomas

A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night ... it's still a bloody bird. — Oliver Reed