Umbrella Insurance Policy Quotes & Sayings

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113 — Miles Harvey

Next time,' I promised, knowing as I said it that it was a terrible, terrible, wonderful idea. — Jenn Marie Thorne

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson

January 26th. The day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else. — Ashley Newell

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases. — Anthony Fauci

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. — Subcomandante Marcos

The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by? — George R R Martin

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.' — Merlin Mann

Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a — Napoleon Hill

How could men who liked cats be bad? — Laurie Halse Anderson

She glanced at him and winked. Gideon found himself enchanted all over again. Her clothes might be a wrinkled, mismatched mess, and strands of her hair might be sticking out at odd angles from the knot at her neck, but when he looked at her, he saw a princess. Now he just had to convince her to marry him. — Karen Witemeyer

Those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge. — Steven Erikson

member of the upper crust. He's a working class bloke, born with a tin spoon in his mouth. In our — Magda Alexander

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle. — Elvis Costello