Old Logger Sayings

#1. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Charles Lamb

#2. Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

#3. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

Connie May Fowler

#4. The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible ( ... ) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.

Isaac Asimov

#5. Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

Scott Walker

#6. I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

Claes Oldenburg

#7. We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

Acker Bilk

#9. There was a time when I dreamed of sex, and then I dreamed of drugs. Soon I will be dreaming light ...

Mati Klarwein

#10. Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Jim Hightower

#11. She's always telling us that the worst part of the spy life isn't the danger - it's the paperwork. After all, when you're on a plane home from Istanbul with a nuclear warhead in a hatbox, the last thing you want to do is write a report about it. So

Ally Carter

#12. For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is.

Perry Chen

#14. There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.

Frederick Lenz