Chauvette Mcelmurry Green Quotes & Sayings

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics ... — La Meri

Oh, she's still here;
she's just not as pretty ... anymore. — Katlyn Charlesworth

When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on the wings
of a flying plane. I cannot be trusted to tell them how I am.
Or if I am falling to earth weighing less
than a dozen roses. Sometimes I dream they have broken up
with their lovers and are carrying food to my house.
When I open the mailbox I hear their voices
like the long upward-winding curve of a train whistle
passing through the tall grasses and ferns
after the train has passed. I never get ahead of their shadows.
I embrace them in front of moving cars. I keep them away
from my miseries because to say I am miserable is to say I am like them. — Jason Shinder

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes. — John Podhoretz

True humility is contentment. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live — Hans Bethe

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver. — J.G. Ballard

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. — Dan Rather

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock? — Deepak Chopra

Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It was spookwar then, adventure; not exactly soldiers, not even advisors yet, but Irregulars, working in remote places with little direct authority, acting out their fantasies with more freedom than most men ever know. — Michael Herr