Raymond Carver A Small Good Thing Quotes & Sayings

Why would you want my given name?"

"Because I'd like to call out your given name when I thrust into you."

~Dante — Tina Folsom

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot. — Anna Seghers

I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them. — Rickey Henderson

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. — Pete Du Pont

The birth of crisis is a birth of opportunity to change yourself, to rise on the top,to become more powerful and more knowledgeable. — Arya Vidhan

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am ... so I tend to trust it. — Keith Johnstone

I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape! — Mikhail Lermontov

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc... — A. Ashley Straker

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community. — Ray Bradbury

Polish those gems within brightly, so you may shine ... — Gino Norris

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention. — Bill O'Reilly

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses. — Nick Denton

But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God — Irenaeus Of Lyons

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda. — David Joyce