Shanshan Full Quotes & Sayings

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, It was involuntary. They think my boat. — Sally Bedell Smith

One Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged. — Aristotle.

There was some little local controversy too, about a fundraising effort called Suzie's Closet--folks getting together in church basements to make care packages for the plantations--blankets and candy bars.....first they interviewed a local advocate for the homeless, asking why our attention shouuld be down there, "when there's so much suffering right here at home."...it was the usual stuff --all the new stories and just the old stories again. — Ben H. Winters

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger

His accent was thick, rippling through my ears like syrup mixed with gin. — Nora Flite

Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble. — Chuck Palahniuk

in wildernesses where weather and gravity create dire consequences for the smallest of offenses, it only takes a few outlaws to bring mayhem and disaster. — Michael Kodas