Displacer Level Quotes & Sayings

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. — George Chapman

What're you doin' up so early?"
"Says the rancher," [Lainie] replied dryly.
"Funny. Maybe me 'n' Kyle had plans for this morning." [Hank] waggled his eyebrows.
"Maybe you and Kyle should've gotten up sooner." She sipped her coffee. "The early cowboy gets to stick his worm in the cowgirl and all that. — Lorelei James

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate ... — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Having made a few bicycles in factories, having written some thousands of rather senseless advertisements, having rubbed affectionately the legs of a few race horses, having tried blunderingly to love a few women and having written a few novels that did not satisfy me or anyone else, having done these few things, could I begin now to think of myself as tired out and done for? Because my own hands had for the most part served me so badly could I let them lie beside me in idleness? — Sherwood Anderson

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. — George Michael

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek! — Erica Cerra

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. — Jonathan Ive

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything. — Louisa May Alcott

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping. — Chester Bennington

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. — Mark Twain

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals. — Paul O'Grady

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven. — Pope Paul VI

Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed. — George Orwell

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot

The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went. — Anna Lee