Slagtree Quotes & Sayings

Just as life will upend you, so will love. — Christine Caine

Beige is the color of indecision. — Paula Scher

Being part of an attack was a strange thing, Marcus had always thought. It was like being a component in a larger organism, something that could live or die, stand or flee, all on its own and independent of the will of the men who made it up. Sometimes it drove you onward, into the face of what seemed like certain death, in spite of every instinct screaming for flight. Other times, you could feel it falling apart, turning at bay like a whipped dog, hunkering down or turning tail to run. — Django Wexler

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book. — Kent Haruf

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised. — Steve Carell

I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'. — Lauren Cohan

His soul,the only fire in a frozen river,spoke up and identified the sound as the Language of the Dead. — Rebecca Hill

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers. — Mary Gordon

There is always a choice to be had, you even have the choice to choose it. — Travis Besecker

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out. — Ellen Glasgow

Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places. — Melodie Ramone

And I'll try harder to always tell you what I'm feeling. — Jaci Burton

Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is bollocks hasn't stopped a good many people from believing in it. Darwinism itself is only supported by tons of evidence, which is a clear indication that Darwin didn't write his books himself. — Eric Idle

Curiously, Chris didn't hold everyone to the same exacting standards. One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends. Chris was well aware of this man's faults yet managed to forgive them. He was also able to forgive, or overlook, the shortcomings of his literary heroes: Jack London was a notorious drunk; Tolstoy, despite his famous advocacy of celibacy, had been an enthusiastic sexual adventurer as young man and went on to father at least thirteen children, some of whom were conceived at the same time the censorious count was thundering in print against the evils of sex. — Jon Krakauer