Jim Shockey Quotes & Sayings

How do you know when you are too drunk to drive? When you swerve to miss a tree then realize it was your air-freshener. — Mike Miller

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home ... To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths ... — Rollo May

She accepted it uncertainly. "This will help?" Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous.
Caine barely resisted smiling at her. "It will help immensely. — V.S. Carnes

I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does. — Louis O. Kelso

Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust." She leaned forward. "Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert." Awkwardly, she patted my hand. "His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two. — Alison Goodman

A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines. — Joanna Rossiter

It's only, he said, that one doesn't like to think of one's grandchildren facing greater disadvantages than one's children. Well stop voting Tory, you prick, Emma did not say. — Sarah Moss

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade. — Christopher Bollen

A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP. — Walker Percy