Quotes About The Lost Colony

#1. The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.

Eoin Colfer

#2. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Eoin Colfer

#3. Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

#4. I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

Ted Turner

#5. You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#6. I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Sarah Vowell

#7. The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

Charles Krauthammer

#8. I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

David Letterman

#9. One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

Bill Maher

#10. Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

Stephanie M. Sellers

#11. There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer

#12. Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Patti Page

#13. Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

Jason Fried

#14. If there's anything I'm starting to learn about people it's (a) that they are fundamentally suspicious and afraid of anyone who is "different," and (b) that fear makes them do and say asinine things.

Libba Bray

#15. It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada and the Bahamas, to name just a couple. Britain's been dumped more times than Taylor Swift. But did they go writing whining songs about it? No.

Craig Ferguson

#16. I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

Tom Waits

#17. Let me put it this way. You, my beautiful girl, have the power to really hurt me, with how I feel about you. Far more than anyone else ever has or ever could. I don't know if you realize that.

Heather Hall

#18. Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

John Burnside

#19. Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Henry Van Dyke

#20. The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity.

Randy Pausch