Mossed Quotes

#1. Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

R. Scott Bakker

#2. Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won't keep misery away from you And will not set you free.

Edith Hahn Beer

#3. It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy ... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

#4. While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Habib Bourguiba

#5. It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

Dan Ariely

#6. I've killed two people, disposed of three bodies, and torched an apartment.
I think it's time to go visit my parents.

Jay Stringer

#7. Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what's the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say?

Emil Cioran

#8. There was the unspeakable neatness of military preparation for violence

Louise Erdrich

#9. A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

Charlotte Gray

#10. There is life after this life.

Mitch Albom

#11. We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Jules Renard

#12. I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!

Tate Donovan

#13. Remember, anything worth having does not come easy.

Todd Dewett

#14. No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

Benjamin Franklin