Ellen Roark Quotes

#1. Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Adam Savage

#3. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#4. On this road
where nobody else travels
autumn nightfall.

Matsuo Basho

#5. everything's just tickety-boo.

Andrea Frazer

#6. It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Mark Strand

#7. Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

Gabe Newell

#8. Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Jim Cooper

#9. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Jeffrey Tucker