Cormorant Quotes

#1. Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening

Basho Matsuo

#2. And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

John Milton

#3. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

John Arbuthnot

#4. I am Baru Cormorant," she protested, "accountant.

Seth Dickinson

#5. A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.

Peter Carey

#6. Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

Bob Barr

#7. We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.

James Anderson

#8. The religious right is one of the most politically militant voting blocs in the country and the agenda is clear (a gun in every uterus). Time we stopped subsidizing the anti-abortion movement in the form of tax-exemptions.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#9. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#10. More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of stars in the sky, Baru wanted in that moment to speak the truth.

But she had no tongue for it. She had burnt all her truth away. Alloyed it into the machine

Seth Dickinson

#11. So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Paul Ryan

#12. Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly trivial to others. Finally, both are granted by society the time to pursue their musings.

Robert S. Siegler

#13. The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

Arne Duncan

#15. I've played everything but the harp.

Lionel Barrymore

#16. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Joseph Fourier

#17. Wait, I kinda do love you.

Giuliana Rancic