Viejos Calientes Quotes & Sayings

Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference. — Jim Butcher

What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. — Wallace Stegner

difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who think that the universe as a whole, or matter-energy, or anything else that exists, might adequately explain its own being).135 — Brad S. Gregory

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me. — Kevin Barry

And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouth
Tired of living for your sick days
Every day makes you sick
Tired of living just get paid
When you're dying to live
but you can't — Dominic Owen Mallary

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. — Travis Tritt

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. — James Forrestal

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child. — Charlie Rose

We must look a long time before we can see — Henry David Thoreau