Aloneafterdark Quotes & Sayings

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along. — Marty Rubin

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. — Walter Murch

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy ... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none. — Neal Stephenson

He's going to save the world before he leaves it if it kills him. — John Le Carre

Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ... — Edna Walling

And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra. — Pete Dexter

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. — Anne Lamott

Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking — Seamus Heaney

the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter. — Frank McLynn

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy. — William Shawcross

side. He began ranting about the fur coats they — Kim Gordon

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises. — Chris Pratt