Sleeper Car Quotes & Sayings

And I couldn't take my eyes off Pete. He ate dinner like he always did, in three or four huge, whoofing bites, before heading back out front to his cone of warmth, his coffee, his cigarettes, and ghostly tunes piping from his little transistor radio. And most important, to whatever thoughts drowned out the voices of his own family saying "hello" and "happy holidays."
I watched him because I couldn't believe that could be anyone's comfortable horizon. A tiny porch on a dark corner near a highway. We lucked out living on a planet made thrilling by billions of years of chance, catastrophe, miracles, and disaster, and he'd rejected it. You're offered the world every morning when you open your eyes. I was beginning to see Pete as a representative of all the people who shut that out, through cynicism, religion, fear, greed, or ritual. — Patton Oswalt

There are . . . times when one must accept the aid of darkness in order to contain a greater darkness. — Brandon Sanderson

I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball. — Alan Lowenthal

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow. — Rita Rudner

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. — Bob Woodward

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. — Laura Kightlinger

I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day job that I didn't care about instead - I placed banner advertisements on the web for a search engine company. — James Bernard Frost

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord. — Pope Gregory I

You can only see God when you notice people — Sunday Adelaja