Futrell Boys Quotes & Sayings

When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that spontaneous eloquence seemed like a miracle and that he rewrote every word he ever published, and often several times. And Mark Strand, former poet laureate, says that each of his poems sometimes goes through forty to fifty drafts before it is finished. — Susan M. Tiberghien

In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades. — Willie McCovey

Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? — Nick Hornby

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality. — Gerard Butler

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own, — Cher

Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now. — Lorrie Moore

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into. — Philip Roth

That slow burn wait while it gets dark, bruising the sun.
I feel grown up with you in your car, I know it's dumb. — Lorde

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. — Judith Wright

if you begin, you win. — Richie Norton

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so. — William Reddington Hewlett

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. — Gertrude Stein

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If — James Altucher

Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years. — Gore Vidal

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises. — Michael Scott