Derryberry Estates Quotes & Sayings

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion. — Cormac McCarthy

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. — Elias Canetti

I before E except after C. Weird?
By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.
I think all writers are weird. — Day Parker

With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings. — William Buckland

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. — Lionel Barrymore

America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. — George W. Bush

Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs. — Elizabeth Aston

Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn't even know he believed until it exits his mouth — David Foster Wallace

Zion is in ruins, Jerusalem lies in the dust. All week there is only hope of redemption. But when the Sabbath is entering the world, man is touched by a moment of actual redemption; as if for a moment the spirit of the Messiah moved over the face of the earth. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are fewer metaphors around than people think. — Terry Pratchett