Tailings And Mine Quotes

#1. It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

Isaac Marion

#2. If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

Henry Ford

#3. Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

Andy Kindler

#4. Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins.
It is the smell of War.

Neal Stephenson

#5. ...It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.

Karin Kallmaker

#6. Sometimes the best people ... have the worst experiences ... because they are ready to learn

Neal A. Maxwell

#7. Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Bill Vaughan

#8. It was the most important moment in human history, the telling of the first lie. That's what separates us from the other animals. It has nothing to do with humans thinking on a higher plane or having easily available credit. We lie to each other. We deliberately mislead.

Michael Robotham

#9. The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

Dane Reynolds

#11. Unity=diversity in harmony!

Dani Johnson

#12. Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

Marion Cotillard

#13. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

T.K. Naliaka

#14. Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

Dinty W. Moore

#15. The binding was of citron-green leather, with a design of gilt trellis-work and dotted pomegranates.

Oscar Wilde

#16. We're so selfish that we talk about "after the war" and look forward to new clothes and shoes, when actually we should be saving every penny to help others when the war is over, to salvage whatever we can.

Anne Frank

#17. There were piles of tailings and chunks of concrete studded with rebar around the oil rig, which continued to bob its head up and down as if it knew the sad ways of the world, as if depressedly resigned to what was happening, as if saying: 'Of course. Of course.

Hugh Howey