Ray Downey Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I worry that I'll slide back into the mindless rotisserie of work and projects that guided me in my old house... that I'll grow numb to the way nature can leave me awestruck. I worry that I'll fall asleep at the switch, only to wake up years later and find that I can't remember what I did last week or the month before that, nor do I recognize the old lady staring back at me in the mirror. — Dee Williams

the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of — Charles Dickens

Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me. — Jason Hartnett

The peregrine falcon is the swiftest, most adept animal I have ever seen. It is worth noting that, like many bird, the falcon's bones are hollow. Travel light. — Ethan Hawke

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice. — Mark Hoppus

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. — William H Gass

Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through too many controversial laws. Obama would've responded but he was busy drafting his new 'mandatory Mexican gay weed' bill. — Jimmy Fallon

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists. — Tori Amos

And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I'm going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right. — Roger Caillois

I expected him to do his usual thing of Oh, Sophie, but that is impossible b/c of this big word, and that big word, and also this abstract concept. — Rachel Hawkins

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy. — Janis Ian

But after reading a chapter or two a shadow seemed to lie across the page. It was a straight dark bar, a shadow shaped something like the letter 'I.' One began dodging this way and that to catch a glimpse of the landscape behind it. Whether that was indeed a tree or a woman walking I was not quite sure. Back one was always hailed to the letter 'I. — Virginia Woolf

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm grateful that I'm mortal...it motivates me. — Kendall Talbot