"I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel."

-- James McBride

#Fuel Quotes #Not Interested Quotes

“The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.21
“Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.”
“I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.”
“We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.”
“You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.”
“I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.”
“I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.”
“The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.”

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