Peat Bog Quotes

#1. Standing within a peat bog in Dingle, you can't help wondering what Ireland was like before you and the other primates scrambled up upon its shores. When viewed from space, did it glow like a furry emerald within a sea of blue, the terrestrial equivalent of a massive marine plankton bloom? We

Hope Jahren

#2. Deathlessness should be arrived at in a ... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

E.B. White

#3. Chemical properties in the peat stop anything from rotting, so bogs are the "bank vaults" of Irish history, protecting whatever is put in them. A bog-cutter recently described finding a slab of butter, still edible after more than a hundred years.

Carmel McCaffrey

#4. When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Eartha Kitt

#5. [ ... ] What's wrong with her?"
"Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

Bill O'Brien

#7. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.

Edward Hoagland

#8. It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

Freida Pinto

#9. We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

Madhuri Dixit

#11. When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

Ymre Stiekema