Sparred Owl Quotes

#1. Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Benjamin Tucker

#2. And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but - he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband

Michelle Obama

#3. God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

#4. In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Jonas Mekas

#5. You know the worst thing about
being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the when and how of being dumped by
somebody, then it wouldn't seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn't be rejection, would it? It
would be by mutual consent.

Nick Hornby

#6. I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

Iggy Azalea

#7. People make their own worlds.

Eva Ibbotson

#8. I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

Iris Apfel

#9. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

#10. When we go somewhere in New York, I'm known as Mr. Savini.

Jimmy Webb

#11. Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.

David Shuster

#12. We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it

Adriano Bulla

#13. You cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.

Fiona Wood

#14. Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?

Seth Shostak

#15. If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero