Knockaround Guys Taylor Quotes & Sayings

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team. — Groucho Marx

I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed — Paula Hawkins

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge. — Nikki Grimes

His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass? — Karen Marie Moning

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way. — Sandra Bullock

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility. — William Jones

She was wary, trained to expect little of life, grateful for small pleasures, on her guard against promises, accustomed to making the best of things, in the habit of both wanting and not daring to want something more. Now Miracle Polish has come along, with its air of swagger and its taunting little whisper. Why not? it seemed to say. Why on earth not? But the mirrors that strengthened me, that filled me with new life, made Monica bristle. Did she feel that I preferred a false version of her, a glittering version, to the flesh-and-blood Monica with her Band-Aids and big knees and her burden of sorrows? What drew me was exactly the opposite. In the shining mirrors I saw the true Monica, the hidden Monica, the Monica buried beneath years of discouragement. Far from escaping into a world of polished illusions, I was able to see, in the depths of those mirrors, the world no longer darkened by diminishing hopes and fading dreams. There, all was clear, all was possible. — Steven Millhauser

We all know more than we give ourselves credit for. The problem is, there's too much surface shit that gets in the way, too many clouds obscuring our thoughts, filling us with worry and doubt and fear. It stops us from tapping deeper within ourselves. — J.R. Rain

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. — Albert Camus

Teacher: Class, we will have only half a day of school this morning. Class: Hooray! Teacher: We will have the other half this afternoon! *** — Various