“ One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 529
“ Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ”
- Mary Ellen Kelly- Copy
- 924
“ Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him… ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 380
“ In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. ”
- R. A. Butler- Copy
- 3.4K
“ For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 3K
“ Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up. ”
- Thandie Newton- Copy
- 721
“ There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves. ”
- Jack Handy- Copy
- 2K
“ Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
- 1K
“ I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years.'. ”
- George Clooney- Copy
- 1.9K
“ What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.2K
“ All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.6K
“ You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It may be objected by some that I have concentrated too much on the dry bones, and too little on the flesh which clothes them, but I would ask such critics to concede at least that the bones have an austere beauty of their own. ”
- A.B. Pippard- Copy
- 133
“ This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. ”
- Vanilla Ice- Copy
- 981
“ The Americans say that we are ungrateful — but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for — for murdering our fathers and mothers? — Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families… ”
- David Walker- Copy
- 3.7K
“ To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
- 2.3K
“ There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: "Where was I before I was born." In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. Its cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner. ”
- Richard M. DeVos- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette — throw "Roderick Random" into the closet — put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there — put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket… ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 2.7K
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