Hocked Crossword Quotes

#1. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Edward R. Murrow

#2. I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

Paddy Chayefsky

#3. all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.

Richard J. Foster

#4. For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.

Rebecca Adamson

#5. You sure you want to come with me?" I said. "The odds are not good." "We're family," said Suzie. I had to smile. "I haven't been all that lucky when it comes to family." "We're the family you chose," said Dead Boy. "The family that matters.

Simon R. Green

#6. All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

#7. It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

Nikolai Gogol

#8. Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Mark Twain

#9. Then, with an extended, falling glissando of disgust, the whole string section, plus flutes and piccolo, surged toward the brass, leaving the music critic and his deed - an early evening frites and mayonnaise on Oude Hoogstraat - illuminated under a lonely chandelier.

Ian McEwan

#10. I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

Jeffrey Rosen

#11. What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

Mother Teresa

#12. A true friend to me is someone who will be there when the chips are down.

Jordan Knight

#13. Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

Russell Brand