It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

Dreams, unlike eggs, don’t hatch from sitting on them.

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Earth and heaven are in us

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has some terrific qualities as a leader.