Valkovuokko Quotes & Sayings

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it. — Bernie Siegel

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles. — Agnes Repplier

Be all the dork that I can be?" he tried.
Her turn. "Hamlet: To dork, or not to dork, that is the question." She smiled proudly, thinking of another. "The apparel 'oft proclaims the man!"
He chuckled. "Hamlet again, but this time with an English accent: Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. — Anne Eliot

Damn deez doilies! — Richard Feynman

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute! — William C. Brown

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. — Imelda Marcos

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools. — Orrin Woodward

Yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. — Herman Melville

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money. — Adam Garcia

Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. "Riding astride would have been easier," he said. "You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position."
"Oh, I know," she replied with a grimace. "Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed."
Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. "Oh, you're saddle sore! I'm sorry
— Mercedes Lackey