Schlitz Quotes & Sayings

The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids. — Art Donovan

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. — Don DeLillo

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers. — Laura Amy Schlitz

The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively. — Laura Amy Schlitz

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do. — Stormie O'martian

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I bought two tall six-packs of Schlitz and went back to my place and drank down the requiem. — Charles Bukowski

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody! — Laura Amy Schlitz

GOD proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from GOD. It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times. 28-30 When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. — Eugene H. Peterson

You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away. — Laura Amy Schlitz

He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfortable conviction that she had seen into his soul. It was a look he was to remember often in the weeks to come. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. — Egon Schiele

This hurts because I love her when I should have learned to hate her. You never fall in love with someone having the thought that one day you'll need to hate them, but you see, the consequence of loving someone more than they love you is hate. You have to learn to hate them or they will strip your soul fucking bare when they leave you. — Stevie J. Cole

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. — Laura Amy Schlitz

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not. — Laura Amy Schlitz

On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic — Laura Amy Schlitz

Parsefall did not love fresh air. In his experience, it was apt to be cold. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Is it true that soulmates always end up together? I didn't think so, but I hoped that if there was such a thing as reincarnation, we would meet again in a another life and try again. If it was possible, I'd find him, for another chance at love. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. — A. E. Hotchner

I'm not a feather to be tossed about. — Laura Amy Schlitz

And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade! — Robert Earl Keen

Beer: All real men drink a specific brand of cheap beer. While I was growing up, my stepfather, who was the manliness man on the planet, drank Schlitz tall boys. There
was no room in the fridge, so he just left them on the counter and drank them warm. One day I asked him why he drank Schlitz, and he said, "It's only 3.1 cents per
ounce. Beer is an acquired taste, so you might as well acquire a taste for cheap beer." That's some manly shit. — Forrest Griffin

I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water. — Laura Amy Schlitz

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that. — Laura Amy Schlitz

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. — Dick Gregory

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art ... It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it. — Laura Amy Schlitz

I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz