Dogwhelk's Quotes

#1. Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. As parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

Barack Obama

#3. But Ma, I have the power to save her!"
-TIM

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#4. If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

George W. Bush

#5. If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.

Lawrence L. Langer

#6. A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

Terry Pratchett

#7. The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

#8. I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it.

Mavis Doriel Hay

#9. We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

Ben Stein

#11. Create your own fears; choose to fear living an average life.

Ehab Atalla