Clodfelter Road Quotes

#1. The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there

Alan Bradley

#2. They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#3. None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Imogen Cunningham

#4. Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

Joan Baez

#5. But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#6. Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Frans De Waal

#7. Two is the beginning of the end.

J.M. Barrie

#8. For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground ... forced me to live in purgatory ... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.

Dan Brown

#9. You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

Kristen Stewart

#10. An intention is a quality of consciousness
that you bring to an action.

Gary Zukav

#11. Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#12. When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.

Ernie Els

#13. Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

Beeban Kidron

#14. Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

Phil Zuckerman