Brian

“Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.”
― Gregory F. Michno, Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)”
― Terry Pratchett