Hemmed Up Urban Quotes

#1. The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

Raymond Carver

#2. Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

#3. It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Alice Hoffman

#5. I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

Philip Pullman

#7. I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Nick Cave

#8. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

George S. McGovern

#9. Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

Steve Winwood

#10. Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

David Guterson

#11. 265. "Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished, let all go out with the deepest silence and let reverence be shown to God."~

St. Benedict

#12. Montpellier produced nearly 40 percent of all physicians in France, but the university had a troubled reputation as a party school where medical students were just as likely to drink and cavort with prostitutes as they were to learn the intricacies of the Hippocratic corpus.

Holly Tucker

#13. Peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

Scott Westerfeld

#14. Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Margaret Atwood

#15. I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

Clive Owen