Tree Tunnels Quotes

#1. It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

Eric Linklater

#2. The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Will Rogers

#3. I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

Paul Theroux

#4. Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

Paul O'Grady

#5. Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

Erica O'Rourke

#6. An army without discipline is worse than an army without soldiers.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.

Geoffrey West

#8. It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Teju Cole

#9. The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

Dahlia Lithwick

#10. But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I'm sort of a strange bird.

Ann Bancroft

#12. The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

Thomas Struth

#13. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

David Wolfe

#14. If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me.

Jeremy Scahill