Stuban Quotes & Sayings

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence. — Charles Dickens

Catholics speak, like baseball players, in the coded language of gesture. Sure, the Roman Catholic Church is an abomination to man and a disgrace to God, but it comes with a highly structured Mass, several sacred pilgrimages, the oldest songs, the most impressive architecture, and a whole bunch of things to do whenever you enter the church. Taken all together, they make you one with your brother. — Joshua Ferris

Cinder's tirade ceased and she gaped at Scarlet. Between them, Thorne settled his chin on his palm as if watching a great show - though his free hand still held the shotgun aimed at Wolf's head. — Marissa Meyer

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement. — Ed Oxenbould

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't. — C.S. Lewis

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. — Kingsley Amis

I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. — Margaret Atwood

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business. — Jack Steinberger

Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry. — Elizabeth Holmes

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return. — Neale Donald Walsch

I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?" — Alec Baldwin

You find out that all this stuff you've accumulated, you could care less about it. It's just the relationships that matter. — Jeff Foxworthy

A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence. — Alan W. Watts

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here. — Sylvia Earle