Geechie Dan Quotes

#1. A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William James

#2. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

Andrew Bacevich

#3. 103 and the even more basic 2 and 515. So, 1030. A thousand and thirty. A mistake. Maybe. Or, maybe not a mistake. Reacher took fifty dollars from the machine and dug in his pocket for change and went in

Lee Child

#4. Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Thomas Jefferson

#5. There are so many great, great vintage clothes to find; there's a whole territory unexplored there.

Lily Cole

#6. Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

Nicolas Berggruen

#7. One way or the other, come back to me, in a month, or a year, when you're old, a haunt in my dreams, an invasion of my sanity, make a way to come back.

Lila Felix

#8. Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Abraham Kaplan

#9. How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.

Gregory Maguire

#10. How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#11. Make it your ultimate habit of life to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

Dallin H. Oaks

#13. What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Joseph Wambaugh

#14. Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

George R R Martin

#15. You've got the fountain of youth hidden in your pants."
"What the fuck does that even mean?" Hook demanded, then held up a hand. "Never mind, I don't want to know."
"Means fucking keeps you young.

S.E. Jakes