Perishin Quotes

#1. What they were after wasn't further complexification or sophistication of existing methods, but unprecedented technology. Wasn't the kind of thinkin' you get from workaday university lab scholars, publish-or-perishin' and countin' their pay. The truly original scientist is a free individual.

Haruki Murakami

#2. You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

L.A. Meyer

#3. Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch.

John Steinbeck

#4. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews

#5. In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

Vivian Amis

#6. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#7. I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

Derek Kilmer

#8. The goal is equality, as it is written: "The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little."16

Anonymous

#9. Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Michael Palin

#10. I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

Sam Snead