Backwater Jacks Quotes & Sayings

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition. — J.G. Holland

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! — Anton Chekhov

And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body finally revealed itself and gave itself a name: envy. For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced itself with a desperate longing for a time before; a time before fear, a time before shame. And now that knowledge had a voice, and it was a voice that rose from the depths of my years and howled into the night sky like a wounded animal longing for home. — Sarah Winman

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer. — Tom Skerritt

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you — Richard Branson

God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains. — Billy Graham

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility. — Dennis Lindley