"You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way."

-- Christopher Walken

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.”
“Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?”
“Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.”
“I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.”
“Crazy is a compliment.”

Source : Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.26, Penguin
“For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.”

Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.170, Penguin
“You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.”
“once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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