Shoveller Quotes & Sayings

What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son. We — Frank McCourt

She'd known for years that good things didn't last, that loved ones went away and dreams were as easy to reach as the stars in the sky. — Eliza Lloyd

I feel that I am a man of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller

It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course. — Terry Pratchett

Likewise, my life had to be steered. And I had to choose who would lead. Would it be me? — Marc Eckel

And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception." "How — Hermann Hesse

I poked my head through the bushes, and saw that the little bunch I was after had joined a great flock of teal, which was on a sand bar in the middle of the stream. They were all huddled together, some standing on the bar, and others in the water right by it, and I aimed for the thickest part of the flock. At the report they sprang into the air, and I leaped to my feet to give them the second barrel, when, from under the bank right beneath me, two shoveller or spoon-bill ducks rose, with great quacking, and, as they were right in line, I took them instead, knocking both over. When I had fished out the two shovellers, I waded over to the sand bar and picked up eleven teal, making thirteen ducks with the two barrels. — Theodore Roosevelt

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God. — Stephen King

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them. — Hanif Kureishi

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. — Thomas Paine

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal. — Betty White

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin

Neal fished around in a bag, removed something and handed it to me. It was a forky thing, but with a round depression. "What the fuck is this?" "It's a spork. — Douglas Coupland

A man is what he thinks about all day long — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all in wires, eventually, reduced to what we said, or didn't say, and what we wrote or didn't write, who loved or didn't love, or loved and lost and never told it except for writing in or to a book. We are all discarded, discordant, confusingly, and so I salute your bravery, book inscriber. Your heart is big enough for both of us, so that there is no room for mockery in me. Anyone willing to strip themselves this bare this fast this way deserves our breathlessness and our hearts' attention. Let's spend an hour, then longer, in contemplation. If you open, open all the way, or as much as you can bear, or else there's nothing here at all. — Ander Monson