Cactus Land Blog Quotes & Sayings

We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion. — Geoffrey Wood

Every path that my foot has treaded was divinely ordered. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts — Kai McCarthy

Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway. — Jenny Han

Do what you think is right and apologize later. — Scott Wilson

I didn't say any more because when you hate, you don't beg ... — Charles Bukowski

During that reading, the top part of my mind is concentrating on story and toolbox concerns: knocking out pronouns with unclear antecedents (I hate and mistrust pronouns, every one of them as slippery as a fly-by-night personal-injury lawyer), adding clarifying phrases where they seem necessary, and of course, deleting all the adverbs I can bear to part with (never all of them; never enough). Underneath, — Stephen King

Trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare bands. It made me want to marry her. Made me want to buy her a magic airplane and fly her away to a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we'd be stuck together, and so it would hurt like ell if we eer tried to tear ourselves apart. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull. — Henry Miller

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die. — James Cook

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community.. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel! — Bill Peterson

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud

Almost all traditions point a big finger in the same direction, no matter what our background, one must only look up and you will see it hanging over you, pointing you somewhere, and if that place terrifies you, than you know you are on the right path. — Robert Bonomo