Howell Binkley Quotes & Sayings

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don't really think you look older because they've grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they're used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you've lost a chunk of yourself. The stories of the terrorist attacks of 2001, the tsunami, the Japanese earthquake always used numbers, the deaths of thousands a measure of how great the disaster. Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time. — Anna Quindlen

In the desert, success is the understanding of limits. One false move and you die. You can't talk your way out of thirst. Bare skin burns. Face-to-face with a spitting rattlesnake, the only thing you have to negotiate is your escape. There are rules in the desert. Pay attention. Adapt or parish. — Terry Tempest Williams

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has — David Simon

When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are. — C.M. Stunich

I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity. — Marie Helvin

Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way. — C.S. Lewis

He smiled and extended a hand. "I knew you would do it, ma petite."
"You arrogant son of a bitch." I smashed the shotgun butt into his stomach. He doubled over just enough. I hit him in the jaw. He rocked back. "Get out of my mind! — Laurell K. Hamilton

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. — Simon Newcomb

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. — Thomas Jefferson

The demonic face stared up at him. It had horns, a Snidely Whiplash mustache and a nasty grin. — Pamela K. Kinney

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. — Marianne Faithfull

He views life with tenderness and determination. — Paulo Coelho

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you? — Stephen King

As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent. — Ian Beattie

Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files. — Lee Sandlin