Darone Bowers Quotes & Sayings

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times ... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty. — Clarence DeMar

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them — Anne Tyler

For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured.
"For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?"
"You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind. — Frank Herbert

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow. — Ambrose Bierce

The boys and girls are one tonight.
They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies.
They take off shoes. They turn off the light.
The glimmering creatures are full of lies.
They are eating each other. They are overfed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed. — Anne Sexton

For my characters to endure. — Markee Anderson

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone. — Anne Michaels

It makes sense that there is no sense without God. — Edith Schaeffer

Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of ... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics ... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?' — Kristi Yamaguchi

Law gave me some structure ... all these rules and internal disciplines. — M. J. Hyland

She didn't like the way he was right. How she listened. She wondered if there was any difference between how she listened to him and how Arin listened to his god. — Marie Rutkoski

In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, men have grown inconceivably lonely. We scan the time scale and the mechanisms of life itself for portents and signs of the invisible. As the only thinking mammals on the planet - perhaps the only thinking animals in the entire sidereal universe - the burden of consciousness has grown heavy upon us. We watch the stars, but the signs are uncertain. We uncover the bones of the past and seek for our origins. There is a path there, but it appears to wander. The vagaries of the road may have a meaning, however; it is thus we torture ourselves.... Loren Eiseley, 1946... — James Edwin Gunn