Steegenga Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, the city has been excavated continuously by German archaeologists since 1906 (Kuhrt 2010, 1:234). Hattusa was located both within the center of Anatolia and the middle of the Hittite territory in a strategic hill-top position (van de Mieroop 2007, 121). As such, Hattusa was the center of Hittite religion (discussed further in depth below), and it was ideally located in the middle of Anatolia's agricultural breadbasket — Charles River Editors

When a guy fell from the sky, you can hope that he's a fallen angel or something equally sexy as that. But when you're in an underground train station and being chased by hidious vampires and some strange guy just randomly fell to your body, that is not sexy at all. — Rea Lidde

His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image. — George Orwell

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. — Lester Bangs

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. — Kyle Chandler

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man. — Thomas Yellowtail

You think you're embarrassing me, but you're not.' He was. — Faith McKay

They all saw him come out, and they all understood that now he knew they were going to kill him — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty. — Edgar Allan Poe

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way? — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. — Liz Carpenter

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth. — Oprah Winfrey

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love? — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot. — Mark Twain