Betschart Lawn Quotes

#1. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.

Margo T. Rose

#2. If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

Shania Twain

#3. I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

Megan Fox

#4. Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

Naveen Andrews

#5. A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Philip K. Dick

#6. The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures - which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

Michael Lewis

#7. Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

George R R Martin

#8. CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

Carl Icahn

#9. For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Alain De Botton

#11. For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

David Miliband

#13. Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

Samuel Alexander

#15. The Count commenced to cough into his napkin, as he had determined long ago that this was the most effective means of removing wine from his windpipe.

Amor Towles