Superinsular Quotes & Sayings

She asked...of she could touch my mangoes. — Cassandra Clare

In my culture we just say f**k off. — Ian Healy

We all three were struck with the kind of horror that makes you want to dig a hole, jump in, and pull the hole in after you. — Robert McCammon

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk. — Gail Collins

Fate and character are different names for the same idea. — Hermann Hesse

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joanna gave me a leveling look. You think we're the only major that's superinsular and clique-ish and gossips about everyone else in it? Believe me, if Nathan bought a new brand of toothpaste, those math nerds probably already know about it. — Alicia Thompson

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. — Mary MacLane

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars. — Evel Knievel

A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be saved, this particular thing, this very tree." If it were to go, all would go
this city, this mischevious and marvelous monument which not to look upon would be like death. — E.B. White

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. — Herman Melville

Righteousness doesn't mean being right. It means showing love, compassion and understanding no matter what you think is right. — L.J. Vanier

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle