John Barth End Of The Road Quotes & Sayings

I was lucky before, but now, I can hardly remember what it was like without him. — Garrett Leigh

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. — Teresa Of Avila

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. — Hasan M. Elahi

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. — Woodrow Wilson

Be aware. Be Curious. Be Clever. Innovation is Something to be Reckoned with. — Daniel C. Tomas

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it. — Robert Kurson

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths. — Margaret George

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. — Noam Chomsky

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. — Gloria Pitzer

For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn't mean they are capable of doing it. — Greg Rucka

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. — Donna Rice

never had his dad around growing up. Jim spent more hours at the office running LightPulse than he did at home, and his three ex-wives — Ernie Lindsey

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think. — Vanessa Bell

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination - by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94 — James W. Loewen