"Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey..." (pantomimes hitting his son) "We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad"."

-- Bill Engvall

#Dad Quotes #Son Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.”
“Sometimes there's no point in giving up.”

Source : "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.
“When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist”

Source : "This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.
“On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.”
“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”
“I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there.”
“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”
“Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.”

Source : Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.455, Seven Stories Press

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