Tightroping The Shark Quotes & Sayings

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. — Henry David Thoreau

After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself. His kindliness and the firmness of his personality enveloped her and she accepted him as one who had a right to know what she thought and wore and ate and read. He was positive. He had grown from a sketched-in stranger to a friend, whose gossip was important news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had seemed irregular and large, was suddenly virile. — Sinclair Lewis

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase. — Noel Gallagher

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. — Mahatma Gandhi

His first sign that things were going wrong was a massive barrage of gunfire that seemed to come from everywhere at once. — James S.A. Corey

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business. — Chris Rock

It has not escaped the notice of logicians that omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible. If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent. — Richard Dawkins

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy. — Melody Beattie

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person. — Jenny Han

If u were a friend then u would bail me out of jail, but if u were a BEST friend u would be sitting there saying dame lets do that again!! — Mac

That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean this faculty of seeing our own shortcomings. But we overdo it. We comfort ourselves with ironic remarks which are always on the tip of the tongue. — Leo Tolstoy