Beley Direct Quotes & Sayings

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read — Kami Garcia

The sun loses its thin grip on the air first, turning it cold, making it remember that winter is coming and winter will be long. Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. — Stephen King

Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well. — Dawn Kurtagich

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. — Mel Brooks

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know ... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding ... a funny feeling ... vultures. — Jimmy Page

The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch. — Paul Theroux

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. — Mary Oliver

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body. — Barbara Kingsolver

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. — Gautama Buddha

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles. — Henry David Thoreau

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar. — Daniel Woodrell

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke. — Dejan Stojanovic