Dohaven Quotes & Sayings

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them ... they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable. — John Irving

Yes," said Cooley. "That is the question, as the Bard might say." "The Bard?" "What's so funny?" said Cooley. "Nothing, sir," I said. "I just didn't know people still used that term." "Well, I'm a people, Burke. Am I not?" "Of course." "If you prick me, do I not bleed, you scat-gobbling, mother-rimming prick?" Occasionally Dean Cooley reverted to a vocabulary more suited to his marine years, but some maintained it was only when he felt threatened, or stretched for time. "Yes, sir," I said. — Sam Lipsyte

Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world. — Marty Rubin

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. — Thomas Henry Huxley

[A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be. — Sara Pennypacker

A hundred men, women and children died on that voyage and were dropped over the side; and some of the captives who were dropped over the side had not yet died, but the green chill of the ocean cooled their final fever and they went down flailing, choking, lost. — Neil Gaiman

She'll still be a happy, loved — Soraya Lane

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care. — Steven Burd

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask. — Randy Pausch

Today, live your life to the fullest because tomorrow is a mystery, don't enter it with regrets — Abie Sigauke

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year - and setting their compensation for themselves - are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages. — Michael Harrington

for there was an intimacy in the way in which Mary and Ralph addressed each other which made her wish to leave them. — Virginia Woolf

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.' — John Flansburgh

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living. — Bob Phillips

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. — Rick Perry