Trovata Diary Quotes & Sayings

Look," said Whiskey Jack. "This is not a good country for gods. My people figured that out early on. There are creator spirits who found the earth or made it or shit it out, but you think about it: who's going to worship Coyote? He made love to Porcupine Woman and got his dick shot through with more needles than a pincushion. He'd argue with rocks and the rocks would win. "So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the church. The land was the religion. The land was older and wiser than the people who walked on it. It gave us salmon and corn and buffalo and passenger pigeons. It gave us wild rice and walleye. It gave us melon and squash and turkey. And we were the children of the land, just like the porcupine and the skunk and the blue jay. — Neil Gaiman

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

If you are idle, ask "why?" If you feel like life is boring for you, ask "why?" When you get into a disappointment, ask "why?" Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask "why? — Israelmore Ayivor

How the hell did I get myself involved with this broad? It's like I'm Lassie, she's Timmy, and every day is a new well. — Sandra Balzo

If they could keep out of jail for this short stretch, most would go on to be the spine of American society - fixing the cars, working the factories, growing the food and fighting the wars. — Bruce Springsteen

The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn't really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long. — Terry Pratchett

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. — Anton Chekhov

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The fact of the matter is our homes are on the frontlines when it comes to protecting and conserving our critical water resources - more than that, they are also key to protecting our health. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass. — Stephen J. Cannell

I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die. — Surendra Nath

Brady, we made love, and you could never accept that. Why couldn't you? It wasn't a stranger; it was me. How could you do that to me? Love, — Zachary Ryan

In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns. — Barbara Lee