Shannenhouse Quotes & Sayings

Aging will create the music of the coming century. — Betty Friedan

Well, crying's good. It prepares you for life. — Ellen DeGeneres

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him — Michael Chabon

I like bustling around Paul's kitchen. And I like it even more when he walks up behind me and wraps his arms around me while I'm standing at the stove. He pretends like he's going to try to steal a piece of chicken from the pasta, but he presses his lips to my shoulder and lingers, his hot breath blowing across my neck. I reach up and wrap my hand around his neck and bring him down so I can kiss him. Then he pops the chicken into his mouth and grins. "That's pretty good," he says, nodding. I roll my eyes. "Glad you like my chicken." "Oh, I wasn't talking about the chicken," he says, letting his eyes roam up and down my body. — Tammy Falkner

We must eat to live, and not live to eat. — Moliere

The only way to cull the uncommon man from the common is with his clothes off. — Paula Wall

It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of. — Michael Tsarion

You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter. — Karen Elson

Again, I didn't blame her. I was a big man. A big handsome, athletic and sensitive man. Have — J.R. Rain

Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own. Just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody. — Nunnally Johnson

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork. — Joe Mantegna

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs. — Donald Fagen

What do we know but that we face one another in this place? — W.B.Yeats

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. — Paul Westerberg