Canto Viii Quotes

#1. Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

Martin Jacques

#2. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)

William Shakespeare

#3. There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. [On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Marcella Hazan

#5. There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

Kate Kerrigan

#6. If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Carl Sandburg

#7. In the fall of 1998, I began my freshman year at San Diego State University, which my dad commonly referred to as 'Harvard, without all the smart people.

Justin Halpern

#8. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

Geneen Roth

#9. A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Aldous Huxley

#10. I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#11. Give until it hurts.

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

#12. I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

Gene Perret

#13. It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to.

Emery Lord

#14. The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

Jim Rogers

#15. Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.

A.R. Ammons