Ammonite Quotes

#1. Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote

Tessa Dare

#2. For myself, it took only the early discovery of a golden ammonite, glittering on the beach between Lyme and Charmouth, for me to succumb to the seductive thrill of finding unexpected treasure.

Tracy Chevalier

#3. Every Jew was the last Jew; Tevye the Terminal, every single one. Yet, Kugel couldn't help but observe, in all that time - no last Jew. There had been a last Assyrian. There had been a last Ammonite. There had been a last Babylonian, a last Mesopotamian, a last of the Mohicans. But no last Jew.

Shalom Auslander

#4. I figured being fat was my destiny.

Ron Lester

#5. My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

Ray Romano

#6. She'd never call Smith males "womanizers." Although she would call them whores.

Shelly Laurenston

#7. The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.

Robert D. Hare

#8. A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Tim O'Reilly

#9. THEY SAY THE best way to move on is to let go. As if letting go is the easy part. As if trying to dim or erase three years of memories, good and bad, is something you can do in one day.

Claire Contreras

#10. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive ... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life ... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Max Frisch

#12. I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.

Michala Petri