Embalming Table Quotes

#1. It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.

Yu Hua

#2. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

Michael Scott

#3. Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime ...

John Green

#4. Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

#6. The Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

#8. I'm worried about myself. Glizzy gang, that's it. I'm not worried about no other rappers.

Shy Glizzy

#9. I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Barbara Mikulski

#10. A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. Thank God! he said, and kissed her.
Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.

Patricia C. Wrede

#12. No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

Maimonides