Buckram Quotes

#1. Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!

William Shakespeare

#3. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

#4. Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

#5. We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

William S. Burroughs

#6. Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they're from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they had an enemy, what language they spoke, and where best to avoid.
The passport is said to be what makes them free, but if freedom is given, freedom cannot be free.

Craig Stone

#7. Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

A.S. Byatt

#8. I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

Sean Pertwee

#9. Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.

Magith Noohukhan

#10. I fear one thing most of all which is stupidity.

Nikola Popovic

#11. It doesn't matter. I'm with you. I'm happy to be anywhere with you.

Stephanie Perkins

#12. The revolution starts at the bottom.

Yvon Chouinard

#13. Stop telling women to smile.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#14. IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.

Karen Joy Fowler

#15. Well, technically, they're going to take my brain apart neuron by neuron. But yes, they'll probably just rip yours out.' Under his breath, the Doctor added, 'If they can find it . . .

Trevor Baxendale

#16. We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

Russ Carnahan

#17. The cascade of water was so vast and mighty, I thought, the angels were not only clapping - they were giving a standing and stomping ovation for a spectacle only God could have created.

Martin Ganda