Stockyard Quotes

#1. Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

H.L. Mencken

#2. (In the 1920s, two Chicago chemists had to puree several thousand pounds of bull testicles from a stockyard to get a few ounces of the first pure testosterone.)

Sam Kean

#3. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

#4. Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

Richelle Mead

#5. If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Ramakrishna

#6. as of April 1, 2010, the U.S. government had lost thirty-four out of forty-six habeas cases. In appeals of several of those cases,

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#7. Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.

Bob Goff

#8. Man only need to discover his world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Thomas Sowell

#10. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.

Leonard Cohen

#12. He did have to flush the toilet though, since I hadn't gotten to that yet. I had only peed, otherwise I might have been mortified. Best friend or not, shit was still shit.

Scarlett Dawn

#13. It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real - or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#14. The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

John Lasseter

#15. All it took was to see him, to hear those words that I was his, and I was falling in love, so hard and so fast all over again.

Karina Halle

#16. I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Lucas Till

#17. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.

Tiger Woods