Saddlestring Quotes & Sayings

Sam Temple kept a lower profile. He stuck to jeans and understated T-shirts, nothing that drew attention to himself. He had spent most of his life in Perdido Beach, attending this school, and everybody knew who he was, but few people were quite sure what he was. He was a surfer who didn't hang out with surfers. He was bright, but not a brain. He was good-looking, but not so that girls thought of him as a hottie.
The one thing most kids knew about Sam Temple was that he was School Bus Sam. He'd earned the nickname when he was in seventh grade. The class had been on the way to a field trip when the bus driver had suffered a heart attack. They'd been driving down Highway 1. Sam had pulled the man out of his seat, steered the bus onto the shoulder of the road, brought it safely to a stop, and calmly dialed 911 on the driver's cell phone.
If he had hesitated for even a second, the bus would have plunged off a cliff and into the ocean.
His picture had been in the paper. — Michael Grant

Would it discourage a stalker from stalking if he knew that they knew? — Donna Lynn Hope

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out, — John Fugelsang

Order drives one inward, and disorder outward, and between both, conscience has a chance to rediscover itself. — Robin Sacredfire

Gender imbalance is, at its root, a collective spiritual crisis. — William Keepin

What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either. — Margaret Atwood

My mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet. — Elena Ferrante

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely. — Gail Collins

The twilight hour comes: even my grief is swept away by the anonymity of life. — Montri Umavijani

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. — Robert Moog

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker