Usnea Lichen Quotes & Sayings

I've never met another man I'd rather be. — Charles Bukowski

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. — Chuck Palahniuk

Do not forget from whence you've come. — Cory Booker

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises. — Nick Woodman

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect. — Giordano Bruno

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.' — Tony Dungy

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery ... I consider nature's facts
its beautiful and grotesque forms and events
in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy. — Annie Dillard

I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: 'Oh! I want to look like that! They're amazing, how well-dressed they are!' — Nicholas Haslam

Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free. — Robert Anton Wilson

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool. — Luka Sulic

Fifteen years ago I had an odd dream. In it, a medicinal plant that I was interested in, an Usnea lichen that is ubiquitous on trees throughout the world, told me that while it was good for healing human lungs it was primarily a medicine for the lungs of the planet, the trees. When I awoke, I was amazed. It had never occurred to me in quite that way that plants have some life and purpose outside their use to human beings. — Stephen Harrod Buhner

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. — Sue Grafton

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. — George Lucas

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything. — John Mellencamp

Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one's possibility. — H. L. Balcomb