Ruess Into The Wild Quotes

#1. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Eben Alexander

#2. Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

Marc Cohn

#3. Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

Abraham Coles

#4. I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Antony Hewish

#5. If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

Herbert Hainer

#6. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.

Everett Ruess

#7. A captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

Jim Butcher

#8. I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability.

Jill Kelley

#9. All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

Michael C. Burgess

#10. I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all.

Robyn Schneider

#11. I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

Charisma Carpenter

#12. Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Desmond Tutu

#13. Figures. They let you in for free. Then you gotta pay for the rest of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides