Maverick Pappy Quotes & Sayings

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. — Annie Dillard

I think the world has too many actresses. — Tina Fey

Then the trees closed in around her, black as pitch and full of ghosts and memories. — George R R Martin

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. — Robert Foster Bennett

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. — Jasper Fforde

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. — Marilynne Robinson

The one-legged never stumble. — Ernest Bramah

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel. — Debora Spar

I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us. — David Finckel

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism. — John Ortberg