"I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do."

-- Richard Ford

#Girl Quotes #Boys Quotes #Married Quotes

“Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?”
“Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.”
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.”
“Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?”
“In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.”
“My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”
“For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”
“The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

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