Ryan Theodrith

“could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin

“Housekeeping comprises the ability to find, evaluate, and use information about nutrition, cooking, chemistry and biology, health, comfort, laundry, cleaning, and safety.”
― Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now become of such commercial and social importance to the world that if it were suddenly to cease no other known substance could supply its place, and such an event could not be looked upon in any other light than of a widespread calamity.”
― Jane Brox, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light