Declinism Quotes & Sayings

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. — Tom Hanks

I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy. — David Ignatius

Some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid. — S.R. Ford

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume, — George R R Martin

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. — Stephen King

I can not imagine a world without books.
My world will not be complete with the love for books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me. — Reggie Jackson

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest." — Harry S. Truman

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise ... I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme. — Aimee Bender

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down. — Chris Tucker