Wilferts Farm Quotes & Sayings

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. — Diogenes

So Egypt, a country where nearly half the population lived on two dollars a day and at least 12 percent of the population, and far more young people, were unemployed, found itself suddenly competing in a world where a country half a world away could make its national icons into an ashtray or a honking-humped camel, ship them transcontinentally, and still make a profit more efficiently than Egyptians could. — Thomas L. Friedman

In a talk at a recent Phi Beta Kappa meeting, Duke University professor Katherine Hayles confessed, "I can't get my students to read whole books anymore."10 Hayles teaches English; the students she's talking about are students of literature. — Nicholas Carr

I used to be a fool ... A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn. — Chris Kurtz

Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world. — Amy Leigh Mercree

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it. — St. Vincent

He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes. — Veronica Rossi

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there. — Robert Herjavec

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott