Southards Lumber Quotes & Sayings

All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, having a harmless bottle of beer. Only the bottle of beer isn't harmless; it's a trigger. It sets off that crazy thing in your mind that made you a dipso in the first place ... — Jonathan Craig

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light. — Alastair Reynolds

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing. — Anthony Jeselnik

It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery? And what is it that attracts us? The crime, or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable? — Anthony Horowitz

Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities. — William Shakespeare

On St. Patrick's Day, the traditional Irish family would rise early and find a solitary sprig of shamrock to put on their somber Sunday best. Then they'd spend the morning in church listening to sermons about how thankful they should be that St. Patrick saved such a bunch of ungrateful sinners. Nobody wore green clothing as it was considered an unlucky color not suitable for church. — Rashers Tierney

Art is both creation and recreation. — Lin Yutang

Funny, how some of the most important people of your life can be dismissed as inconsequential, just because you believe the bullshit they've spent their entire lives selling. — Amy Lane

I didn't tell her what I'd done; I told her he wasn't who I thought he'd be. Mum stroked my hair and said, Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they make you vomit. — Cath Crowley

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests. — Winston Churchill

A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge. — Alexander Hislop

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace. — Nelly Sachs

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. — William Peter Blatty