November 18th Quotes & Sayings

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going? We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question. — Jack Kerouac

I realize that Camilla is out very own statistical anomaly, an outlier that no one seems to know where to place. — Melissa Keil

The tribune was betrayed by one of his own slaves and killed. — Adrian Goldsworthy

There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create ... — Madonna Ciccone

The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air. — Ernest K. Gann

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time. — Jose Saramago

It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists? — Richard Flanagan

The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left. — Friedrich Engels

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God. — Frederick Buechner