History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

“What treaties that the whites have kept, that the red man broken? Not one. What treaties that the white man gave to us they…

— Sitting Bull

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

— Buffalo Bill

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind…

— Nancy Mairs

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a…

— Charles de Lint

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood…

— John Maynard Smith

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

— Roger von Oech

“Picture yourself sitting in the middle of a junkyard, and there is light all around you. That’s a good one.”

— Art Hochberg

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a…

— Steven Weber

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing…

— Richard Blumenthal

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant…

— Tom Wolfe

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases…

— Charles Bukowski

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted…

— Tom Robbins

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi