Wakinyan Quotes & Sayings

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. — Sylvia Earle

If she were human, I'd judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn't sit in a negative column with her, though, because she gave off a smoldering, ripe sensuality that made youth look like a boring waste of time. — Jeaniene Frost

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it. — CrimethInc.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. — James Joyce

What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth. — Jim Ratcliffe

What we think of as our "gut instincts" are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires. — Lisa Unger

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish? — Marcus Aurelius

We learn to do something by doing it.
There is no other way. — John Holt

They left. Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence. Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The abrupt ending and the expanse of blankness at the bottom of the page mirror the finality of the decision to move and the uncertainty of the life that lay ahead. Good writing finishes strong. — Steven Pinker

Regardless of the situation, don't let the bastards win ... and have no regrets ... for it will be a good day!
-Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander) — R.G. Risch

Somewhere in the shape sighs take. — Cameron Conaway

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;
debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind. — Harry Chapin

In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries. — Mark Helprin