Cannery Row Family Quotes & Sayings

My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love. — Gail Carson Levine

I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness ... The Constitution doesn't count! — John Silber

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation. — Donella Meadows

The most important thing is to stay positive. — Saku Koivu

To touch a person ... to sleep with a person ... is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them. — Catherynne M Valente

My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me. — Mac DeMarco

And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation. — Kakuzo Okakura

Death stalks all of us by default. — Steve Merrick

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic. — Jewel

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex. — Edith Head

You saying I'm getting old?" Eddie asked, grinning. "It happens to us all, in the end. If we're lucky. — Andy McDermott

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell

One can fall in love and still hate. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bubba then grabbed a hold of my leg and his eyes got all cloudy and that terrible pink sky seem to drain all the colour in his face.
He was trying to say something, and so I bent over real close to hear what it was. But I never could make it out. So I asked the medic, ' You hear what he say?'
And the medic say, 'Home. He said, home.'
Bubba, he died, and that's all I got to say about that. — Winston Groom