Ten Canoes Memorable Quotes & Sayings

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. — Lin Yutang

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. — Peter Singer

To learn etiquette, is actually learning how to see others, and respect them. — Yixing Zhang

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold on to anything that's her. — David Levithan

Josie's house was near the edge of town, next to the used car lot. When a person was done with a car, and they didn't need to pawn it, they would park it in the used car lot, open the door, and run as fast they could for the fence, before the used car salesmen could catch them. No one ever came to buy one. The used car salesmen loped between the lines of cars, their hackles raised and their fur on end. They would stroke the hood of a Toyota Sienna, radiant with heat in the desert sun, or poke curiously at the bumper of a Volkswagen Golf, nearly dislodged by potholes and tied on with a few zip ties. The used car salesmen were fast and ravenous, and sometimes a person who meant only to leave their car would leave much more than that. — Joseph Fink

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. — Ted Shackelford

I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it. — Anne Wojcicki

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants — Stephen King

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end. — Tatjana Soli

Nothing exists without its opposite. — Chris Crutcher

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near. — E.Y. Harburg

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes. — Debbie Allen

So where are we going?"
"Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception. — Robyn Schneider

The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is no such place as gone. — Ramona Ausubel