Quotes & Sayings About Perry's Childhood From In Cold Blood

Fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends. — Chuck Palahniuk

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score. — Lou Holtz

And the history of our own nation! Was it not chosen by Providence to become the leading nation on earth? And does it not tower mountain high over other nations? Is it not the gem of the ocean? Is it not incomparably virtuous, ideal, and brave? The result of such ridiculous teaching is a dull, shallow patriotism, blind to its own limitations, with bull-like stubbornness, utterly incapable of judging of the capacities of other nations. This is the way the spirit of youth is emasculated, deadened through an over-estimation of one's own value. No wonder public opinion can be so easily manufactured. — Emma Goldman

When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't. — Philip Yancey

spurious credit for compositional skills he didn't possess. — Will Birch

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not. — Kurt Vonnegut

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance. — Hamish Bowles

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do. — Wes Fesler

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before. — Christopher Columbus

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions. — Heather Langenkamp

Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God's Word lie simple, absolute and unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Amid the deepest shadow they pour overwhelming light on what is most manifest. Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen they completely fill our sightless minds with treasures beyond all beauty. — Pope Dionysius

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one. — Rabih Alameddine