Hechinger Stores Quotes & Sayings

(Darcy) "Why do you suppose she decided to come back ... after all this time, I mean?"
(Nick) "The barmaid?"
"Bronte"
"If I were to hazard a guess, I would suppose her mother finally convinced her she was on her deathbed."
"I suppose, but since she's been on her deathbed for the past ten years that I know of. I'm thinking Bronte probably wouldn't fall for it."
— Jaide Fox

Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France. — John Crowe Ransom

learn to live like the wild animals, — John Muir

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. — Nick Harkaway

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different. — Christopher Vokes

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker. — Rodney Dangerfield

From time to time, however, writers have engaged in politics. Its effect on them as writers has been injurious. — W. Somerset Maugham

But I wasn't happy ... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt].
'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace ...
The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me ... three more men does make a lot of difference. — John Flanagan

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. — Junot Diaz

To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important - toughness, doggedness, and perseverance. — Brene Brown

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think. — Rosanne Cash

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge