El Rookie Quotes & Sayings

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person. — Joe Abercrombie

My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn't get the fever."
"I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh? — Shelly Laurenston

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher

Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other. — John McAfee

Can o'Beans was to remark that a comparison between the American Cowpoke and, say, the Japanese samurai, left the cowboy looking rather shoddy. 'Before a samurai went into battle,' Can o' Beans was to say, 'he would burn incense in his helmet so that if his enemy took his head, he would find it pleasant to his nose. Cowboys, on the other hand, hardly ever bathed or changed their crusty clothing. If a samurai's enemy lost his sword, the samurai gave him his extra one so that the fight might continue in a manner honorable and fair. The cowboy's specialty was to shoot enemies in the back from behind a bush. Do you begin to see the difference?' Spoon and Dirty Sock would wonder how Can o' Beans knew so much about samurai. 'Oh, I sat on the shelf next to a box of imported rice crackers for over a month,' Can o' Beans would explain. 'One can learn a lot conversing with foreigners. — Tom Robbins

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery - the sooner the better. — George Eliot

I like a quiet life, you know me. — J.K. Rowling

Let us not be false witnesses for Christ, changing the doctrine of God to suit our own opinions. — Adam Houge

Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not. — Katie Couric

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting. — Jennifer Grey

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J.G. Farrell

The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ... — Meg Waite Clayton

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal

There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your lives joyful and sweet. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process. — Patrick Rothfuss