Flumes Quotes

#1. The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork.

Isabella Bird

#2. I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

Anne Lamott

#3. I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

Reggie Evans

#4. HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him.

Ayn Rand

#5. Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by

Nena

#6. The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

Sean O'Casey

#7. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

Chris Campanioni

#8. I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

Melissa Etheridge

#9. It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

L. Ron Hubbard

#10. Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

Christopher Titus

#11. Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.

Suzanne Young

#12. Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. A large fleshy woman stood before me in full regalia. Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling. The sign in the window said Miss Sadie was a medium. From the look of her, I'd say that was a bit wishful.

Clare Vanderpool

#13. All misery and pain come from attachment.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. When reading I pretend I'm an editor, though when writing I realize I'm not.

Fierce Dolan

#15. Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

Walter Wink