Smemo Sounds Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable. — Karen Fisher

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don't know why. We were nice people. — Suzanne M. Sabol

The frolic architecture of the snow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are. — John Darnielle

Two paths lie ahead of today's CIOs. One leads to becoming a trusted senior executive leader of the enterprise; the other leads to a technical management, "just keep the lights on and do it cheap" role. — Marianne Broadbent

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind. — Seneca The Younger

I can't believe anyone would make fun of your height. Because you're average height, right? -Brandon — Molly McAdams

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man - he must view the man in his world. — Harvey Williams Cushing

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. — Stella McCartney

Jesus's titulus reads KING OF THE JEWS. His crime: striving for kingly rule; sedition. And so, like every bandit and revolutionary, every rabble-rousing zealot and apocalyptic prophet who came before or after him - — Reza Aslan

I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time. — Tara Lipinski

Thinking is an art because it requires you to listen to your thoughts and then do something with them. — Andrew Holmes

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation. — John F. Kennedy