Blessie Nelson Quotes & Sayings

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant. — Boyd K. Packer

I study her expression, trying to memorize what love looks like, just in case things don't work out. Apparently, it looks vulnerable, like a dog that's been hit by a car. Just lying there on the pavement, waiting for you to run into the street and scoop it up in your arms. — Paula Stokes

She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word "death." She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when I reflected on my dread of the world and its bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that I could go on living. I consented easily to her proposal. — Osamu Dazai

THE BOUNTY
In her kitchen, she saw many things she would like to eat. On the counter, there was a bunch of new bananas, yellow as a Van Gogh chair, and two apples, pristine. The cabinet was open and she saw a box of crackers, a new box of cereal, a tube of curved chips. She felt overwhelmed, seeing all of the food there, that it was all hers. And there was more in the refrigerator! There were juices, half a melon, a dozen bagels, salmon, a steak, yogurt in a dozen colors. It would take her a week to eat all of this food. She does not deserve this, she thought. It really isn't fair, she thought. You're correct, God said, and then struck dead 65,000 Malaysians. — Dave Eggers

The writer's job is to get naked ... — Harry Crews

Nature does not produce on the one side owners of money or commodities, and on the other men possessing nothing but their own labour-power. This relation has no natural basis, neither is its social basis one that is common to all historical periods. — Karl Marx

When we yield to love, we are aiding to our own haven. — Publilius Syrus

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on. — Lewis Black

Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls. — James D. Watson

Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember. — Frederick Lenz

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role,
But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. — Big Daddy Kane