Ann Wilkie quote: "The key to our waste management system is a natural biological process called anaerobic digestion that relies on microorganisms to transform animal manure into methane gas. Anaerobic digesters, which process waste under oxygen-free conditions, are different than conventional aerobic systems that use oxygen to treat the waste."

It's an environmentally friendly solution for an unpleasant housekeeping task. It's not often that o...
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In covered lagoons, which are less efficient than fixed-film anaerobic digesters, the digestive bact...
ANN WILKIE

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you...
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer b...
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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
WILKIE COLLINS

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enor...
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Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding ...
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Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead....
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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...
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You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money...
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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without so...
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It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events'...
WILKIE COLLINS

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
WILKIE COLLINS

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression un...
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I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILKIE COLLINS

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
WILKIE COLLINS

We had our breakfasts-whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must ha...
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I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept ...
WILKIE COLLINS

In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.
WILKIE COLLINS

The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a g...
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Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the sa...
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It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, th...
WILKIE COLLINS

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...
WILKIE COLLINS

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
WILKIE COLLINS

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...
WILKIE COLLINS

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...
WILKIE COLLINS

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used ...
WILKIE COLLINS

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
WILKIE COLLINS

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happin...
WILKIE COLLINS

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand tog...
WILKIE COLLINS

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such ...
WILKIE COLLINS

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among ...
WILKIE COLLINS

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow,...
WILKIE COLLINS

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectu...
WILKIE COLLINS

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...
WILKIE COLLINS

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy ...
WILKIE COLLINS

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do...
WILKIE COLLINS

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them m...
WILKIE COLLINS

Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.
WILKIE COLLINS

Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man u...
WILKIE COLLINS

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs....
WILKIE COLLINS

When two members of a family or two intimate friends are separated, and one goes abroad and one rema...
WILKIE COLLINS

Don't let me think.
WILKIE COLLINS

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it ...
WILKIE COLLINS

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...
WILKIE COLLINS

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
WILKIE COLLINS

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit ov...
WILKIE COLLINS

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have stee...
WILKIE COLLINS

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
WILKIE COLLINS

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scatt...
WILKIE COLLINS

Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
WILKIE COLLINS

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to...
WILKIE COLLINS

Silence is safe.
WILKIE COLLINS

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
WILKIE COLLINS

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but the...
WILKIE COLLINS

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military vo...
WILKIE COLLINS

I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to kno...
WILKIE COLLINS

He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only...
WILKIE COLLINS

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
WILKIE (WILLIAM) COLLINS

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
WILKIE (WILLIAM) COLLINS

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded ...
ANN COULTER

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistake...
ANN LANDERS

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive...
ANN LANDERS

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sa...
ANN LANDERS

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
ANN LANDERS

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; i...
ANN LANDERS

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.&#...
ANN LANDERS

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it serv...
ANN LANDERS

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
ANN LANDERS

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one ...
ANN LANDERS

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
ANN LANDERS

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations t...
ANN NOCENTI

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
ANN LANDERS

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love...
ANN BRASHARES

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's...
ANN ROMNEY

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ...
ANN POWERS

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ...
ANN COULTER

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer...
ANN ROMNEY

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
ANN JILLIAN

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love eva...
ANN OAKLEY

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks togeth...
ANN COULTER

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares...
ANN LANDERS

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
ANN RICHARDS

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are ...
ANN LANDERS

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes...
ANN BRASHARES

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart...
ANN BRASHARES

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolut...
ANN LANDERS

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
ANN VOSKAMP

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend y...
ANN PATCHETT

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days befo...
ANN VOSKAMP

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...
ANN DRUYAN

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP

Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’r...
ANN AGUIRRE

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to ch...
ANN OAKLEY

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and g...
ANN OAKLEY

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor...
ANN RICHARDS

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it wo...
ANN LANDERS

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
ANN LANDERS

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, st...
ANN LANDERS

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ...
ANN LANDERS

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ...
ANN LANDERS

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS

Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
ANN LANDERS

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
ANN LANDERS

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD

Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonder...
ANN LANDERS

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS

I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
ANN COULTER

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ...
ANN BRASHARES

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane...
ANN NOCENTI

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altoge...
ANN COULTER

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of ...
ANN LANDERS

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
ANN LANDERS

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of al...
ANN LANDERS

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give...
ANN VOSKAMP

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma...
ANN VOSKAMP

Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
ANN VOSKAMP

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
ANN VOSKAMP

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes t...
ANN VOSKAMP

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
ANN VOSKAMP

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS

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