Deheyn Quotes & Sayings

barns. Hinged on their sides and latched in the center, the old garage doors swung open into the alley. No electric door openers, no remote controls. Drivers parked in the alley, got out and opened the swinging doors, then returned to their cars to pull inside. Beside each garage were garbage cans, waiting for the garbage trucks that still rumbled down the cinder alleys. Molded plastic garbage cans, some with small plastic wheels, had replaced the dented sheet metal cans that our parents had used. The plastic cans lasted longer, and they didn't rust, but you lost — Tom Robertson

I write every book as if I'm dying with no promise of next month, done. — Tyronne Jacques

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves. — Jerome K. Jerome

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice. — Livy

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up. — Ezra Taft Benson

When Bryn said that, uttered out loud the thing that to my never-ending shame I sometimes felt, I'd fallen in love with her a little bit. And I'd thought that was enough. That this implicit understanding and those first stirrings would bloom until my feelings for Bryn were as consuming as my love for Mia had once been. — Gayle Forman

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy De Maupassant

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. — Mike DeWine

We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits. — Manuel Valls

Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind. — Debasish Mridha

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market. — John Allen Paulos