Wortham Quotes & Sayings

There is something oddly therapeutic about trudging through marshy sand, the feeling of squishiness below the feet signaling to the brain that it's OK to just let go for a while. — Sarah Jio

Constant talkers are unheard. — Mason Cooley

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object. — Jeff Cooper

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?" — Heidi Julavits

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are. — Esther Hicks

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains. — Zac Goldsmith

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is. — Paul Davies

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In — David Allen

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs ... — Craig Owens