Gunwales Canoe Quotes & Sayings

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher. — James Thurber

There are no uncontaminated angels — Philip Roth

The quality of mercy — William Shakespeare

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. — Arthur Conan Doyle

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best. — James Stewart

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view. — Jason Segel

I rejoice in the bounty of God, constantly manifesting as overflowing supply here and now. — Catherine Ponder

And thus, in a single moment, did my life go from unbearably strange, but still tolerable, to actively impossible. I am willing to allow that, once one lives in a world where science can transform mosquitoes into the harbingers of the apocalypse, the rules of our forefathers have, perhaps, ceased to apply. — Mira Grant

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well. — Mao Zedong

Hooray for bloated Martian defense budgets, — James S.A. Corey

Practice and playing music has to be like a religious experience. It has to be your religion, you know; it has to be your trance. You get something from a devotion to it and digging deeper into yourself and the nature of reality. — Jonathan Harnum

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be. — Lyndsay Faye

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee ... — Howard Zinn