Puft Ranch Quotes

#1. A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably ... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Aristotle.

#2. The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

Robert Goolrick

#4. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

Seymour Papert

#5. We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Anatole France

#6. When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Lynn Swann

#7. Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Sophie Swetchine

#8. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

#11. It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

Lynn Shelton

#12. Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?

Nick Flynn