Boustrophedon Quotes

#1. Etruscans sometimes wrote boustrophedon style, in which the direction of writing alternates with each line - right-to-left, then left-to-right. Brilliant! The eye doesn't waste time trekking back to the left side of the page after every line.

A. J. Jacobs

#2. As people do a task, they improve at it.

Emily Oster

#3. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#4. If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

David Petraeus

#5. War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Philippa Gregory

#6. The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

Edward Hirsch

#7. I'm happy and I'm focused on my work ... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

Eiza Gonzalez

#8. Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.

David Guterson

#9. In a sense, [Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.

C.S. Lewis

#10. One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..

Erma Bombeck

#11. And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.

Dylan Moran

#12. Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

Lillie Langtry

#13. I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you ... "
"You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

Shel Silverstein

#14. The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson