Chainman Quotes

#1. Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.

Judith Flanders

#2. Live your life ... as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

#3. The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go,

Sandra Oh

#5. Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Maria Edgeworth

#6. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Pope Francis

#7. I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.

Brian Strang

#8. Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

#9. An exact science is one that admits loss.

Genesis P-Orridge