Untottering Quotes

#1. Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven. Oh,

Herman Melville

#2. Above my pay grade!

Dennis E. Taylor

#3. Pretty is different,' he murmured. 'Pretty has no scars. You are ... ' jaw muscles tensed again. 'Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not 'pretty'. Word's 'breathtaking'.

Aleksandr Voinov

#4. We always remember best the irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

#5. If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

Haruki Murakami

#6. We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

Michael Franti

#7. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E.L. Doctorow

#8. This is the great divide on how we approach the Bible. Does it express the heart and mind of a divine person, or is it merely a record of human religious experience?

John Piper

#9. You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

Ted Danson

#10. Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

Karen Kingston

#11. We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

Adam Carolla

#13. Humility is the light of understanding.

John Bunyan

#14. A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

Anna Torv

#15. Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

#16. Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Charles Fourier