Billhook Quotes

#1. He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.

Nicole Brossard

#2. Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

#3. If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Viktor E. Frankl

#4. It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

Stephen Colbert

#5. You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force the protagonist to put his money where his mouth is. Think baptism by ever-escalating fire.

Lisa Cron

#6. Never feel comfortable where you're now, get stuck, complacent, and stagnate in one spot; be always relevant, dynamic, and multi gifted. This is one of the rules of the 21st C.

Assegid Habtewold

#7. German youth, do not forget that you are a German," and "Remember, little girl, that one day you must be a German mother.

Adolf Hitler

#8. Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#9. Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#10. I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

Arthur Hertzberg

#11. Maybe you're not so bad after all.'
He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. 'If you tell anyone, I'll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.

Catherine Doyle

#12. Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Karl Marx

#13. I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

Ayelet Shaked

#14. There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.

Karen Joy Fowler