Skirvin Thanksgiving Quotes

#1. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Terry Goodkind

#2. The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.

Aleksandar Hemon

#3. An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

James Mattis

#4. Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Rodrigo Rato

#6. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

Patti Smith

#7. Well," Dan says after about thirty minutes of friendly talk. "Should we go upstairs?

Alessandra Torre

#8. Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

Bill Moyers

#10. I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#11. night and day, a hundred billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through each square inch of your body, every second, without a trace of interaction with your body's atoms.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'

Cate Blanchett

#13. Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

Vijay Kumar

#14. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

Emily Haines

#15. No, but it was a close call. Brought you something."
"Turtle pee?"
Cam laughed and shook his head as he reached into his backpack. "Sorry to let you down, but no." He pulled out papers stapled together. "It's a syllabus. I know. Thrilling shit right here.

J. Lynn