Richard Gatling Quotes & Sayings

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man. — Barry Hannah

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being. — Virginia Satir

The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically. — Douglas Preston

It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished. — Richard Jordan Gatling

I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion. — Sean Pertwee

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? — Dorianne Laux

Yeah,maybe later we can all sing a demon version of 'Kumbaya. — Rachel Hawkins

Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down. — Lil' Wayne

Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death worthy of a song. — George R R Martin

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them. — Jane Roberts

into the passenger seat, unable to forget the horror on Eliza's face as we broke into the coffin. Jack Morgan's intel had to be accurate. But I'd never be able to prove it. Mark Talbot had realized this was far bigger than any of us knew. Mary dropped me outside Private's building — James Patterson

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. — Marcus Aurelius