Spriggs Excavation Quotes & Sayings

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide

I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges. — Jim Lee

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless. — Maureen Corrigan

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. — Arthur Conan Doyle

With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization

- from the short story "Resurrection — Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. — Craig Brown

I'm a realist." "You're a misanthrope. — Jason Mott

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. — Tom Ford

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard

Australasian's custom of speaking of England as "home." It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head. — Mark Twain

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems. — Farah Diba

I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know?"
"I completely know".
"But I- I mean, I'm not totally happy, but there's no way I'd go back to my old obvious self! I like it here. I like all the ... confusion and heartbreak".
"It wasn't that bad ... was it?"
"Scott ... yes, it was. But I feel like I've learned some stuff along the way. I know things now". — Bryan Lee O'Malley