Swampland Taxidermy Quotes & Sayings

This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know. — F Scott Fitzgerald

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. — Jhumpa Lahiri

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

It went bust," said Uncle Alex, with a certain grim, Darwinian satisfaction. My — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We lay on our sides, like spoons nesting in a drawer. My arm ended up under her head, like a pillow. She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. - Kvothe - The Name Of The Wind - pg 629 — Patrick Rothfuss

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that. — Jeremy Scott

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation. — Immanuel Kant

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used. — Ted Demme

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV. — Missi Pyle

He considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature ... It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely. — Dennis Merzel

Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met. — Adam Braun

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. — Margaret Halsey