Trickling Filter Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. — Louis Nizer

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them? — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The funny thing about murder is that the act is often committed decades before the actual action. Something happens, and it leads, inexorably, to death many years later. A bad seed is planted. It's like those old horror films from the Hammer studios, of the monster, not running, never running, but walking without pause, without thought or mercy, toward its victim. Murder is often like that. It starts way far off. — Louise Penny

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope

The prospect of sitting across the table from Caleb Halliday, knowing he thought she was a trollop, was patently unappealing. Besides, one had to take a personality as strong as Caleb's in small, measured doses. Like castor oil. — Linda Lael Miller

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. — Phyllis McGinley

Put one foot in front of the other and never look back unless your spouse is calling you. — Sam Black

The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years. — Abhijit Naskar

Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal. — Glenn Allison

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality. — John Wanamaker

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites. — Lawrence Clark Powell