John D. Voelker Quotes
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.John D. Voelker
Quotes to Explore
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon -
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn -
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
Barton Gellman -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan
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I never forbid myself anything.
Ieva Laguna -
When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Bart Stupak -
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
Ted Morgan -
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Zadie Smith -
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp -
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
W. H. Auden -
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Marcus Aurelius -
Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
Anthony Wayne -
In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
Albert Einstein -
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
Ken Kercheval -
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
Matt Taibbi
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When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
Paul Watson -
When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
Kygo -
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder -
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
Joan Collins -
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
John D. Voelker