Mad Farmer Quotes

#1. The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer ... the quiet in the woods of a summer morning, the voice of a pewee passing through it like a tight silver wire; ...

Wendell Berry

#2. I have had no professional training.

William Hung

#3. The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

John Le Carre

#4. Life is too short to do what other people think you should do.

K.A. Tucker

#5. It is not an "imitation of Christ" but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the "true man."349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This

C. G. Jung

#6. I'm not a great one for looking back.

Ian Botham

#7. I think a scarf is the most versatile item. On a plane, it's good to wrap around when you're cold or rest your head on it. I love scarves.

Martha Hunt

#8. She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
-Rohan to Win

Lisa Kleypas

#9. The funny thing was that his kiss had felt like fucking me, and his fucking me felt like being kissed, everywhere, every bit of my body unbearably warm and buzzing.

Leah Raeder

#10. In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.

Lucy Stone

#11. The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.

Svetlana Alexievich

#12. Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.

Anne Enright

#13. While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

George Carlin

#15. I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day.

Ernest Cline