Ink Stained Wretch Quotes & Sayings

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. — David Simon

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. — George Will

Severin frowned at the leafy green twigs shoved in a vase that Elle had brought him that day. She had run out of flowers, and resorted to clipping branches from bushes. He could see the flattened leaves the maddening girl had no doubt rubbed. She is like a burr - once she brushes you, she is difficult to dislodge. He — K.M. Shea

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does. — Sam Harris

My first life fled without a fight and left nothing behind, so I doubt it was a loss worth mourning. A man I don't remember mixed genes with a woman I can't recall, and I was called to the stage. I stumbled through the curtain, squinting into the blinding light of the birth canal, and after a brief and banal performance, I died.
This is the arc of the average life - unexamined, unremarked, unremarkable - and it should have ended there. In simpler times, life was a one-act play, and when it was over we took our bows and caught our roses and enjoyed any applause we earned, then the spotlight faded and we shuffled backstage to nibble crackers in the greenroom of eternity. — Isaac Marion