Barry Lopez River Notes Quotes & Sayings

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. — Joseph Conrad

He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. — Mark Haddon

Love is always by definition a choice — Sunday Adelaja

When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. — Colleen Atwood

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. — Caroline Kennedy

When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer. — Richard Dennis

Are. To have people cut you dead, or look at you with contempt, or have your friends and family turn their backs - You don't know what that's like. I don't want you to know what that's like. God damn it, I saw your face when you thought your uncles would get those bloody photographs! — K.J. Charles

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more. — Vatsal Surti

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way. — Elvis Presley

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. — David Searls

Know the extent of your authority and exercise it. Establish and maintain authority. — Bob Briner

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino

You owe me now, mister. You can't expect to steal a woman's pastry and get away with it. — J. Kenner

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men — Virgil