Apocheir Quotes

#1. If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

Wheston Chancellor Grove

#3. If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Lou Holtz

#4. I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns.

Cory Booker

#5. The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Timothy Noah

#6. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Marsha Blackburn

#7. You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Bre Pettis

#8. You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Michael Landon

#9. Shirts are for pussies. I take my pants off!

Linden Ashby

#10. I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

Henry Rollins

#11. What's the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.

Rick Riordan

#12. Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Alexander Pope

#13. Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history.

The Wombat