Animal Footprints Quotes

#1. The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Hans Arp

#2. All told, U.S. allies in Central America during Reagan's two terms killed over 300,000 people, tortured hundreds of thousands, and drove millions into exile.

Greg Grandin

#3. I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

Paul Lester Wiener

#4. As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

Peter Kropotkin

#6. For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving

Thomas Mann

#7. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

#8. Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

Tim Butcher

#9. It was impossible not to see all the gears turning in his head. It was also easy to see the moment he stopped thinking and nodded yes anyway.

Kiera Cass

#10. My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones

#11. Animals are footprints of God.

Martin Luther

#12. I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

David Zucker