Fanegas De Tierra Quotes

#1. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit.

Carl Sagan

#2. Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Jimmy Buffett

#3. With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Chris Squire

#4. In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster. For me, ye have become the pearl, the beat of me heart. The sapphires and emeralds signify me tartan and how I will always surround ye with love, Creigh.

Vonnie Davis

#5. Can rules or tutors educate
The semigod whom we await?
He must be musical,
Tremulous, impressional,
Alive to gentle influence
Of landscape and of sky
And tender to the spirit-touch
Of man's or maiden's eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Junk food's not going anywhere. The specifics of what's being snacked on, and what's considered 'junk' and what's 'healthy' will change, of course, depending on what's available.

Ann Leckie

#7. For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

David Morse

#9. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#10. If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.

Robert Kroetsch

#11. Everybody has a dream, to male that dream a reality, one must work hard.

H.J. Cronin

#12. The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

Madeleine Albright

#13. A race lacking respect for women would never advance socially or politically.

Edith Thomas