Summer 2012 Sayings

#1. He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy
from Spring Cleaning
Coming Summer 2012

Brandi Salazar

#2. I couldn't get along with the French.

Jerry Della Femina

#3. Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

Oscar Wilde

#4. After all, golf is only a game,' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. The aspirations of most people
security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits
are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

Irena Klepfisz

#6. Simon. She might not know many things, but

Susan Mallery

#7. Lovers have a language that can be lost
how to speak, how to touch, when to try.

Parke Godwin

#8. What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.

Kim Van Alkemade

#9. A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

Tommy Lee Jones

#10. What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Johannes Brahms

#11. Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Robert Stacy McCain

#12. I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Ban Ki-moon

#13. During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Michelle Malkin

#14. The abundance of weapons, the absence of a working Libyan government, and lingering anti-Western sentiments among certain militias led to increasingly brazen incidents during the spring and summer of 2012.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#15. What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Jerry Pournelle

#16. As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Jonathan Evison

#17. The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar's open!

Jeaniene Frost

#18. The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping struck at a few reflected stars.

Charles Dickens

#19. By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

Eric Schmidt

#20. And mighty poets in their misery dead.

William Wordsworth