Alvah Bessie Quotes

#1. So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Alvah Bessie

#2. Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

David Quammen

#3. Think about winning the day ... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

Drew Brees

#4. In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Arthur Erickson

#5. My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

Craig Thompson

#6. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

#7. You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.

Ed Robertson

#8. You have a talent that is unique in its expression, so unique that there's no one else alive on this planet that has that talent, or that expression of that talent. This means that there's one thing you can do and one way of doing it that is better than anyone else on this entire planet.

Deepak Chopra

#9. The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Abu Bakr

#10. Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

Alvah Bessie

#11. That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Alvah Bessie

#12. Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams

#13. My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

M.I.A.

#14. You are the end, and the beginning.
...
When I die, my only regret will be that you could
never reside in my heart to hear how it sings
when you touch me.

Celeste Bradley

#15. From now on, if I ever get to burn another newspaper, I'll remember what a few cents can buy.

Alvah C. Bessie

#16. For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#17. When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Alvah Bessie