Gene Logsdon Quotes

#1. Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

Maria V. Snyder

#2. When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

Gene Logsdon

#3. Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

Ed Koch

#4. I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

Gene Logsdon

#5. A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

Gene Logsdon

#6. Those are Klingon and Federation ships," I said. "You're a nerd, Shelton, but, holy crap, do I love this.

John Corwin

#7. Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

Gene Logsdon

#8. It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Jenna Elfman

#9. I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

Gene Logsdon

#11. Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

Gene Logsdon

#12. Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

Gene Logsdon

#13. In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

John Hull

#14. If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

#15. I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

Dave Chappelle

#16. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Margaret Millar

#17. My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

George Meredith