77th Precinct Quotes & Sayings

In fifteen minutes most of the camp was there, including the Texan who, Lord save his soul forever, had brought along a bottle of bonded Kentucky Drain Opener. — Peter Hathaway Capstick

Well, I'm supposed to be crazy, right? And there isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider the better.
- Adrian Ivashkov — Richelle Mead

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus

Is it best to be a dysfunctional human being or a human un-being ? — Benny Bellamacina

Blue thinks of this now as he makes his way across the river, watching black ahead of him and remembering his father and his boyhood out in Gravesend. The old man was a copy, later a detective at the 77th precinct, and life would have been good, Blue thinks, except for the bullet that went through his father's brain in 1927. Twenty years ago, he says to himself, suddenly appalled by the time that has past, wondering if there is a heaven, and if so whether or not he will get to see his father after he dies. — Paul Auster

I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it. — Mary MacLane

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. — Jennifer Granholm

Uneasy sleeper you will live to see the city of your birth pulled down to the last stone. — Cormac McCarthy

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. — Adrian Mitchell

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering. — John Quincy Adams

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them. — Douglas Wilson

I think guinea pigs are fabulous!! — Monica