Upwellings And Downwellings Quotes & Sayings

It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. Without the rifle he had to fit in, to be part of it all, to understand it and use it - the woods, all of it. With the rifle, suddenly, he didn't have to know, did not have to be afraid or understand. He didn't have to get close to a foolbird to kill it - didn't have to know how it would stand if he didn't look at it and moved off to the side.
The rifle changed him, the minute he picked it up, and he wasn't sure he liked the change much. — Gary Paulsen

Of course you're dying. We're all dying. Where the devil else do you think you're heading? — Joseph Heller

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them. — Noah Scalin

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?"
"He's a Bowman. We don't know any better. — Lisa Kleypas

A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life. — A. L. Rowse

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters. — Kenneth Eade

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. — Jean-Henri Fabre

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot

Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given. — Brene Brown

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them ... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others. — Russell L. Ackoff

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier! — Mickey Rourke

Danny was a matador. Other cast members included a chubby Italian chef, a mime, and, for some reason, a mummy. I found that offensive on behalf of living Egyptian people, but I also knew that Parker McHune's mother couldn't sew, so wrapping her son in Ace bandages was the best she could do. — Molly Harper