Sam Watkins Quotes

#1. Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

Bruce Catton

#2. I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride.
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper.

Lauren DeStefano

#3. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

David Letterman

#4. Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. Every autumn I
take myself into my arms
and kiss my palms
for making it through another
year.

Darshana Suresh

#6. America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

Sam Watkins

#7. PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)

Matthew Quick

#8. Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.

Jill Telford

#9. Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Bill Gates

#10. If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you'd stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you'd likely stop talking.

Gary Keller

#11. I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

Sam Watkins

#12. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

Ray Bradbury

#13. You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.

Libba Bray