Cannery Row Mack And The Boys Quotes & Sayings

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened. — Jasper Fforde

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down — Richard Scrimger

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded. — Peter Sellers

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.' — Ira Glass

It was him.
He'd traded his coat and tails for jeans and a tight Abercrombie and Fitch tee, but it was him. I would have known him anywhere.
I blinked slowly, believing he was a mirage. A very handsome mirage. But I didn't have the power to dream cute boys into life. When he didn't disappear, part of my heart sang and part of it worried that I'd never be the same again ...
Oh, I never would be the same again. — Gwen Hayes

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance. — Germaine Greer

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends. — Publilius Syrus

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire. — Fred Dibnah

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. — John Steinbeck

Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base ... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. — Desmond Tutu

I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way. — Loudon Wainwright III

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' — Mahmoud Darwish

Matter is matter, and mental association only a delusion. — Thomas Hardy