Bosarge Skiffs Quotes

#1. The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

Andrew Marr

#2. I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

William Gibson

#3. Learning how to say no is an important skill in life, but I've always thought that every time you refuse something, you end up dying a little.

Jane D. Red

#4. My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Harry Mathews

#5. The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.

Nadine Dorries

#7. Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Holly Near

#8. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

Rudyard Kipling

#9. Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav

#10. At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.

Bill Callahan

#11. This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones ... And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.

Ramon Magsaysay

#12. Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Carl Hart