Princess Bride Farm Boy Quotes & Sayings

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own. — Alexander Pope

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison

It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit! — Armistead Maupin

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman. — Len Wiseman

You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I'd like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him? Well, I think I'd just tell him. I'd say: Wait a minute. Wait just one minute before you start in on me. Before you say anything, there's just one thing I'd like to know. And he'll say: What's that? And then I'm goin to ast him: What did you have me in that crapgame down there for anyway? I couldnt put any part of it together. Suttree smiled. What do you think he'll say? The ragpicker spat and wiped his mouth. I dont believe he can answer it, he said. I dont believe there is a answer. — Cormac McCarthy

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. — Dennis C. Blair

Remember, I know what you are inside. Just a scared boy who tried to kill himself when he was too weak to save his wife from hanging. — Pierce Brown

Everyone will look. Even if they think it's impolite, still they will look. — Lucy Christopher

I climb into my characters' heads and live there while I write. — Catherine Cruzan

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room — Adele Parks

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy. — Elmore Leonard

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction — Woodrow Wilson

Room is the wrong word. It's not a room - it's a mission statement. — E.L. James

Life is too short for a half-rack. — Mike Mills

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one. — Rajneesh