Robideaux Quotes & Sayings

On sentry duty with Hazel, he would try to take his mind off it. He loved spending time with her. He asked her about growing up in New Orleans, but she got edgy at his questions, so they made small talk instead. Just for fun, they tried to speak French to each other. Hazel had some Creole blood on her mother's side. Frank had taken French in school. Neither of them was very fluent, and Louisiana French was so different from Canadian French it was almost impossible to converse. When Frank asked Hazel how her beef was feeling today, and she replied that his shoe was green, they decided to give up. Then Percy Jackson had arrived. Sure, Frank had seen kids fight monsters before. He'd fought plenty of them himself on his journey from Vancouver. But he'd never seen gorgons. He'd never seen a goddess in person. And the way Percy had controlled the Little Tiber - wow. Frank wished he had powers like that. — Rick Riordan

It's true there are moments - foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump - when I'm all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed, for I'm the sort now in the fool's position of having love left over which I'd like to lose; what good is it now to me, candy ungiven after Halloween? — William H Gass

It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall. — St. Vincent

He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection. — Jamie Ford

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes. — Rory Stewart

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people. — Viggo Mortensen

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards. — Judith Martin

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. — Christopher Lasch

Girl, you're free, can't you see that? You've got your child, you've got your family down here who love you, you've got your farm. You don't have to ask for anything. You know how few women in this world get to say that, black or white? — Natalie Baszile

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers. — James H. Billington

I blundered into creativity as blindly as any child learning to walk and see. — Ray Bradbury

There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times. — John Green

Her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth — Janet Fitch

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. — Mark Twain