Nature S Housekeeper Quotes

#1. I'd somehow managed to get an executive stuck in a tree. Instead of a saucer of milk and 'Here kitty, kitty, kitty,' someone might want to bring a hedge fund and a recording of George Bush promising 'No new taxes.

Michael Gurnow

#2. I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

Ross Macdonald

#3. It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#4. At least Ozymandias had a statue erected in his name. If I were to have died at that moment, the only thing I had managed to erect in my honor was a shrine to China's manufacturing capabilities.

Michael Gurnow

#5. There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Steven Pinker

#6. With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Calvin Miller

#7. If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.

Michael Gurnow

#8. I've always been pretty energetic.

David Schwimmer

#9. I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Bayard Taylor

#10. As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue from a trove of drunken, handsy woodland elves. 'I feel like I'm in the movie Predator,' he said as he decapitated a flower.

Michael Gurnow

#11. I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

Marla Maples

#12. You see, my mind takes me far,
but my heart dreams of return.

Henri Cole

#13. Few things in this world evoke scrotum-shriveling fear in a man like a group of frowning women, enraged to the point of atypical silence, ambling toward him with an obvious agenda.

Michael Gurnow

#14. I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Kenneth L. Pike

#15. Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Haruki Murakami

#16. I had not been prepared for my employer's approach to vehicular navigation, which was a simple case of being unable to tell the difference between a very large, multi-windowed van that could accommodate a mobile disco and a Formula One racer.

Michael Gurnow

#17. My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.

Michael Gurnow