"I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!"

-- Paul Engle

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I would like to enlighten people.”
“Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.”
“It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.”
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc
“Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.”

Source : Ken Macrorie (1985). “Telling Writing”, Boynton/Cook
“Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.”
“If I can't be beautiful, I'd rather just die”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Feb 06, 2012

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