A Single Shard Crane Man Quotes & Sayings

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all? — Susan Meissner

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving ... — John Updike

We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose. — Billy Beane

The superior officer raised his ice-blue eyes, then went back to his chore without exhibiting any particular emotion. If the colonel was involved in the affair, Sharko thought, if he had kept up with the news following the discovery of the bodies in Gravenchon, he would certainly know Sharko's face, who he was. If so, had he been steeling himself for this visit since the corporal on guard had called ahead? Or had he simply not recognized him? — Franck Thilliez

If keeping me off your dick wasn't punishment, what was it?"
... "Foreplay."
... "We've had six years of that. Do we really need more?"
Dallas grinned. — Kit Rocha

And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene. — Sheryl Lee

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms. — Seneca The Younger

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. — Hermann Hesse

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country. — Foster Friess

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction. — Ron Carlson

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove. — Alan S. Kesselheim

The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested a lot of time, money, energy, or love in something. This investment becomes a reason to carry on, even if we are dealing with a lost cause. — Rolf Dobelli

Are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets. — William Gaddis

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. — Sinclair Lewis