Simcocks Advocates Quotes

#1. I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I ... uh, hurt your feelings or something."
She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated."
His head snapped back on his spine. Well ... then. Okaaaaay.

J.R. Ward

#2. There was no absence of lips, there were two children, But their bones showed, and the moon smiled.

Sylvia Plath

#3. The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Edvard Munch

#5. I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

L. Neil Smith

#6. Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Mason Cooley

#7. Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Louis Leakey

#8. I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night?

Cat Stevens

#9. It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

Mother Teresa

#10. To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

Richard Hofstadter

#11. Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

#13. By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

R. Buckminster Fuller