Sheftall Diaries Quotes & Sayings

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. — James Russell Lowell

Superheroes in New York, Give me a break! — Stan Lee

But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave. — Alexandre Dumas

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing. — Marshall Allman

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor. — Dan Barber

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be. — Frank Miller

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. — Dale Earnhardt

It is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors. — Aeschylus

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest. — David Hume

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time? — Ayn Rand

Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors. — Timothy Egan

Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatoza attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese-twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the reveling cosmos. (Yes, our DNA is unique, but so is a salamander's. Yes, we construct artifacts, but so have species ranging from beavers to the architecture ants ... Yes, we weave real fabric things from the dreamstuff of mathematics, but the universe is hardwired with arithmetic. Scratch a circle and pi peeps out. Enter a new solar system and Tycho Brahe's formulae lie waiting under the black velvet cloak of space/time. But where has the universe hidden a word under its outer layer of biology, geometry, or insensate rock?) — Dan Simmons

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault