Ineffectual Def Quotes & Sayings

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump. — Jim Harrison

Time had past indeed: it had overtaken him and gone ahead. It had left him hopelessly behind with a few poor gifts: the iron grey hair, the heavy fatigue of the tanned face, two scars, a pair of tarnished shoulderstraps; one of those steady, reliable men who are the raw material of great reputations, one of those unaccounted lives that are buried without drums and trumpets under the foundations of monumental success. — Joseph Conrad

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work. — Chuck Close

Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one."
"Two."
"One and a half," Thalia said.
She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me. — Rick Riordan

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team. — Tom Watson

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. — Hunter S. Thompson

He light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand. — Mark Frost

he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea. — Dana Marton