Spuria Irises Quotes

#1. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

#2. And as I remember your grandmother and I were already casting eyes at each other more than we were casting for fish

Brian Doyle

#3. Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Christopher Marlowe

#4. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

Karl Von Frisch

#5. We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.

Steven Magee

#6. One speaker after another used to start his presentation coyly by saying, "Lady and gentlemen," or "Gentlemen and Mrs. Graham," always with slight giggles or snickers.

Katharine Graham

#7. The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

Alice Morse Earle

#8. The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Michael Pollan

#10. The greatest writers have persistence.

Gina B. Nahai