Mcmurtry James Quotes & Sayings

Well, don't make duck. I'm morally opposed to duck. Do you know what they do to ducks at a duck farm? The cruelty! It's barbaric. But I do love veal. Can you make veal? Or is that too hard for you? — Kristan Higgins

I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him. — Larry McMurtry

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner. — Gerhard Schroder

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out! — Richelle Mead

We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all. — Lauren Oliver

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre — Michael Nesmith

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales.
Now we make records to promote tour dates. — James McMurtry

Why doesn't Yasmin distinguish ... between private morality and public order? — Hilary Mantel

We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly. — James McMurtry

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. — Jim DeMint

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another. — Joseph Addison

Peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb. — Les Brown

Whiskey don't make liars
it just makes fools. — James McMurtry

Who you looking for
What is his name
you can prob'ly find him
at the football game
it's a small town
you know what I mean
it's a small town, son
and we all support the team — James McMurtry