Staggs Construction Quotes

#1. My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

Edmund White

#2. What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Lin Yutang

#3. Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost ... perhaps even the war.

Ken Follett

#4. Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

Wally Lamb

#5. Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.

Maya Banks

#6. For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

Andrew Keen

#7. The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

Eduardo Galeano

#8. I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

H. Jon Benjamin

#9. Call on God at all times, even in times of trouble.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

Ray Nagin

#11. Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

Homer

#12. Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

Jet Li

#13. Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

Marisha Pessl

#14. Sex - the poor man's polo.

Clifford Odets

#15. If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.

Doug Dorst