Skip Downing Quotes & Sayings

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old. — Samuel Wilson

He'll be back soon," she said, her face grave.
It suddenly occurred to me that what people call "honesty" might well refer to just such an expression. I wondered if what the word originally meant was not something lovable like that expression, rather than the stern virtue smelling of textbooks of morality. — Osamu Dazai

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. — Richard Bach

Writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work. — Mari Sandoz

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. — Bob Dylan

It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War — Mohsin Hamid