Bud Keene Quotes & Sayings

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even. — Anne Tyler

I hate Breeds," she muttered. "Do you know that? You and your sharp, damned noses. Just because I want to doesn't mean I should. Hell, I want cheesecake but I know better. It goes right to my hips. Does that mean I have to eat it anyway?"
He stared back at her in disbelief. "You're comparing me to cheesecake?" Offended male fury and outrage glittered in his eyes.
She huffed, "Well, the same principle applies. — Lora Leigh

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate. — John Britt Daniel

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. — Kit Bond

Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear. — Robert Bloch

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane. — Jerry Saltz

She reminded me that I could write stories,/
could be struck by lightning & live. — Jen Currin

Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused. — Kimbra

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered. — Simon Sinek

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job. — Monica Lewinsky

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways. — W.T. Purkiser

Mom! This is Haruhi! We'll adopt her someday so don't forget!

~Hikaru and Kaoru — Bisco Hatori

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't. — Robin Sacredfire