Stappersven Quotes & Sayings

And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the solar system, only to find the sun cockney and the stars suburban. — G.K. Chesterton

Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies. — Daniel Ortega

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. — Damon Galgut

So, Noah smoked pot. I drank beer. We made a beautiful couple. — Katie McGarry

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match. — Stan Mikita

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown

It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me. — John Fante

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed. — Bob Wright

Sit loosely in the saddle. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. — John Waters

I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes. — Gregor Collins