Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Wendell Berry

The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.

Wendell Berry

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.

Wendell Berry

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

Wendell Berry

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Wendell Berry

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Alexa Chung

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

Rob Lowe

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Tony Robbins

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Rosie Perez

I get bored in Hollywood.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories