Mean Creek Quotes

#1. Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts ... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

James Bovard

#2. In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Freeman Dyson

#3. What do you mean? How does he look at me?
I don't know. It's like you're a chocolate ice- cream and he doesn't have a spoon.

Catherine Anderson

#4. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.

Idries Shah

#5. Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.
Why do you love them?
Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do.

Jane Smiley

#6. You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

Caroline Wozniacki

#7. We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

#8. Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere ... When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.

Jay Nixon

#10. Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle.

Alice Bailey

#11. To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Elsa Triolet

#12. Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

Scott Weiland

#13. I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place ...

Dean Koontz