Ventrambulans Quotes & Sayings

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans". — Ambrose Bierce

I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them. — Roger Stone

There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me. — B.B. King

While group collaboration can certainly be a source of collective intelligence, it can also get you to jump off a cliff or drive too fast. And that's probably why some form of continued connection to the adults and their adult perspectives still exists in traditional cultures, and even in our animal cousins. Without adults around, young adolescents can literally go wild. — Daniel J. Siegel

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God. — Bill Bennett

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. — Alexandra Kerry

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause? — Sophie Scholl

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. — John Lancaster Spalding

Even T.E. Lawrence, who hardly knew the meaning of fear, was by Sassoon's own account, terrified after only five minutes of his driving; 'my methods of turning from side roads into main roads were abrupt in those days' Sassoon added by way of explanation. — Jean Moorcroft Wilson

The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit. — Larry Bowa

She was a beautiful china cup on a table, quietly asking to be filled. And little by little, Erik was tipping over and pouring out. — Suanne Laqueur

Someday her prince would come. And he'd be a rich and hairy Alpha dude who howled at the moon and pissed on fire hydrants. — Kerrelyn Sparks