A Crude Awakening Quotes

#1. All our efforts must tend towards light.

Antonio Machado

#2. What would people think?'
Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.
'Oh,' said Grandpa.

Garrison Keillor

#3. It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them

Anne McCaffrey

#4. The future looks like gasoline ... crude oil ... is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

Chris Cleave

#5. I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

Heidi Klum

#6. At first I didn't believe in women and unicorns but that was before I knew about the power of chick stuff and before I knew Vageena Hertz.

Peter Griffin

#7. There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Loni Anderson

#8. When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

Lisa A. Mininni

#9. Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Tony Visconti

#10. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.

Mark Helprin