Polishes For Leather Quotes

#1. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Richard Bach

#2. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon

#3. Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

Larisa Alexandrovna

#5. NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

Ella Baker

#7. Dammit," Dale cussed. "I was kinda hoping Congress got ate.

Rhiannon Frater

#8. Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life; what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?

C.J. Mahaney

#9. You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

Nhat Hanh

#10. Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do.

Killian McRae

#11. Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

Patrick Carman

#12. Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.

Robertson Davies

#13. A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

Jose Marti

#14. Nothing made you feel more like a fucking sorcerer than aviating under your own power. Yippee ki-yay, motherfuckers.

Lev Grossman

#15. ...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

Emile Durkheim