Oldbuckknives Quotes & Sayings

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through. — Sarah Ruhl

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost. — Elmer Davis

If it pleases you.
And in his wprds, as always, Kate heard the echo of I love you. — Lorraine Heath

Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.") — Bill Bryson

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? — Caroline Paul

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85. — Robert Fogel

If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all. — Frank McCourt

When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull. — Jennifer Lopez

the thought process:
"It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it, until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?" p.5 — Virginia Woolf

Good humor, Jefferson added, "is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society all the little conveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; — Jon Meacham

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball. — Elbert Hubbard