Top 12 Martinas Rankin Quotes
#1. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.
Edward Abbey
#2. Rodney the ghoul? ... Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.
Jeaniene Frost
#3. It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.
Pam Houston
#4. It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
Lloyd Kaufman
#5. The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.
Susanna Moore
#6. It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all
Rona Jaffe
#8. The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children ... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.
Charlton Laird
#9. Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
William Blake
#10. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.
Brian Dennehy
#11. If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?
Michael Shannon
