Meverden Excavating Quotes

#1. The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic ... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Corita Kent

#3. A person asked me, How do you prepare for the stage? I told her, Well, it's like this. You go to diction school. They teach you to fill your mouth with marbles and talk right through the marbles. Each day you take one marble out. When you've lost all your marbles ...

Henny Youngman

#4. Alas! the joys that fortune brings
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. I did remember. Mr. Rector and Mr. Endicott had basically taken a beautiful island paradise and bulldozed it into an ugly subdivision, complete with tennis courts and a tiki bar.

Meg Cabot

#7. There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

Michael Moore

#8. I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

Robert Gober

#9. If she does not respect you, she will replace you.

Habeeb Akande