Campfires And Rivers Quotes & Sayings

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming. — Bo Schembechler

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning. Then you are standing face-to-face in seconds that wipe the affable smiles right from your mouths. What did you say? Instantaneously your attachment seems fragile, tenuous, subject to any transgression of your historical self. And though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant. — Claudia Rankine

-a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness. — Khaled Hosseini

I don't take characters home with me. — Sissy Spacek

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. — George Eliot

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. — Annie Dillard

Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is. — Tommy Wiseau