Poolroom Quotes & Sayings

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession. — James T. Farrell

It was like her father said: never make people glad twice-glad to see you come, and glad to see you go — Natalie Baszile

I don't read tabloids. I just don't go there. — Ashley Jensen

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. — Isabel Paterson

He seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

the old anti-'commercial' tendencies mocked throughout this book have been bulked up into a worldview by the runaway growth of what I call semipopular music." (Oh yeah, "semipopular music." Er, "music more popular in form than in market share." At least when it starts out. Under the rubric "alternative," now also an established image-making strategy that informs many of the "brands" ambitious young musicians concoct for themselves. — Robert Christgau

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved — Roger Rosenblatt

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. — Edgar Friedenberg

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. — T.S. Mathews

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. — Aaron Burr Jr.

Cal!' Beverly called out over the crowd... But Cal looked back at her as if it were some weird coincidence that his name was Cal and this complete stranger had said something to someone who was also named Cal. He turned away. Jeanette stood just beside her, looking at the strap of her little shoulder bad, staring at it. Had anyone had this child tested? — Ann Patchett

How self-centered, how arrogant ... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches ... I was a commodity cheese-atarian. — Sherman Alexie

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal

Still, one does what one must. — James A. Moore