Bastard Executioner Quotes & Sayings

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness. — Thalia

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar. — Francis Parkman

As I grew older, I began to understand the differences between all of the other girls in school and myself. They had families, and I did not. They sat at home at night at a dinner table and ate with their brothers, sisters, and both of their parents. I sat at home and ate Ravioli's from a can as my mother sat in her chair and watched television in what I assumed was terrible pain. — Scott Hildreth

Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever. — Allan Gurganus

I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor. — George Hodgman

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition." — Junot Diaz

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

Architecture is crystallized music. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right. — Thomas Paine

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. — Russell Conwell

If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it. — Ethan Hawke

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong. — Ellet J. Waggoner

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it. — Gary Busey

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance. — A. Edward Newton