Sawmill Quotes

#1. Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.

O. Henry

#2. I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

Amy Sedaris

#3. Radicalism was like a cancer, metastasizing around the globe until every country was infected by it.

Kaylea Cross

#4. It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

Riccardo Muti

#5. Sani's family lived in a well-kept double-wide in an otherwise less-than-spiff trailer park outside of Sawmill.

John Scalzi

#6. The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

Samuel Blumenfeld

#7. If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

William Barclay

#8. Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.

Richard Restak

#9. I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

Jeff Merkley

#10. What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

Jimmy Buffett

#11. Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.

Andre Maurois

#12. Pointless, needless suffering pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and the mortal passes away

Cassandra Clare

#13. All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man ...

Alfred De Musset

#15. Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

Cormac McCarthy

#16. In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Gloria Steinem

#17. We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

Steve Jobs

#18. Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

George Pendle