Baleen Quotes

#1. Baleen was a very pricey place that I would not have attempted on my own modest means. It has the kind of oak-paneled elegance that makes you feel the need for a cravat and spats.

Jeff Lindsay

#2. But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce.

Carl Sagan

#3. This is Kester Baleen and Ajex Cristo,' Jared introduced. 'One born without common sense and another with too much intelligence.'

'Yeah, and what about you Dernell?' Kester retorted back. 'Born with a dry sense of humour.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#4. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. I know few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a plump newborn baby.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#6. He didn't care what she said - happiness was a lot more than good health and a poor memory. Happiness was this. It was her, and him, and that moment. Fuck Albert Schweitzer. He could kiss his ass. Happiness wasreal.

J.M. Darhower

#7. The ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Nate Silver

#8. Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Horace Bushnell

#9. Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde

#10. The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs ... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Mark Twain

#11. We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

Sam Altman

#13. You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.

Sarah Jio

#14. Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

Matt Chandler

#15. The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

Martin O'Malley

#16. When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

Rory Cochrane