Symmes Quotes & Sayings

Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished? — Davy Jones

What force is more potent than love? — Igor Stravinsky

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ... — Patrick Symmes

Man's life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality ... — William Butler Yeats

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest. — Billy Sunday

The answer can only be that God has given Adam free will, and therefore Adam may do things that God Himself cannot anticipate in advance. — Margaret Atwood

To All the World: I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid, concentric spheres; one within the other, and that it is open at the poles twelve or sixteen degrees. - J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry, April 10, 1818; quoted in Sprague de Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond, New York, Rinehart, 1952, x — Umberto Eco

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS. — Emma Watson

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication. — Patrick Symmes

Don't want your hand," he stated. Damn. "Want your mouth." Yay! — Kristen Ashley