Midshipmen Bait Quotes

#1. Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

Willa Cather

#2. I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem ... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

Lucy Hale

#3. It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.

Jerry Speyer

#4. A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Ralph Caplan

#5. Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned) ...

F. M. Scherer

#6. They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Virginia Woolf

#7. But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

Samuel Johnson

#9. These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

Pope Francis

#10. There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "What?" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha - ?

Lorrie Moore

#11. Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Panda Bear

#12. A judge judges only matters of fact, but God judges the heart. He not only judges wicked actions, but wicked designs. He sees the treason of the heart and punishes it.

Thomas Watson