Firmineo Quotes & Sayings

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life. — Waverley Root

You will always be remember for how you finish — Jonah Books

No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and monotonous gallop of mere progress by precedent. — G.K. Chesterton

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun
after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime. — Ann Richards

We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate, to see or be seen. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then become a story-teller. — Rebecca Solnit

Why?" He sounded bemused. He'd whispered the word.
She supposed he meant: why are you here? Because her mind answered with: Because I love you, and damn you for it. You have both made my life worth living and utterly ruined it, and I'm grateful that you did.
She smiled faintly. She would never say it. — Julie Anne Long

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough? — Joan Jett

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. — Wanda Jackson

We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. — Yukito Kishiro

Marc to Gabe: What do you know about the lemon stuff? You weren't in desert combat. You were a park ranger. I'm not dissing that. It's an important job. Someone has to keep the chipmunks in line. I've watched Chip and Dale. I know how sneaky those little bastards can be. — Pamela Clare

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say. — C.S. Lewis

Never mind Communist solidarity, China and the Soviet Union wanted to do business with the likes of Hyundai and Samsung, not with state-owned enterprises in the North that didn't pay their bills on time. — Barbara Demick