Eugenious Props Quotes & Sayings

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time. — Herbert Hoover

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back. — Ronald Reagan

Listen closely. There's a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don't give a damn if my work is commercial or not ... I'm the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That's why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself. — John Fante

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin

Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me.
It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue. — Janet Evanovich

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. — Benjamin Graham

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them. — Peter Hoeg

I want to see what can be seen, of him, take him in, memorize him, save him up so I can live on the image, later: the lines of his body, the texture of his flesh, the glisten of sweat on his pelt, his long sardonic unrevealing face. I ought to have done that with Luke, paid more attention, to the details, the moles and scares, the singular creases; I didn't and he's fading. Day by day, night by night he recedes, and I become more faithless. — Margaret Atwood

want to know a truth of mine?" "Always," I say, turning my head to better face him. He takes my hand and presses it against his chest. Beneath my palm I feel his heartbeat racing. My eyes move from his chest to his face. "It does that whenever I'm around you," he says. I — Laura Thalassa

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them. — C.S. Lewis

If you wake up in the morning with a pulse, your blunders from the day before are gone and you can do anything with today. — Lauren DeStefano

the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not sung so much as bleated. Bleated and repeated. — David Sedaris

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. — John Dryden