Spenkelink John Quotes & Sayings

But poets don't want homes
do they?
they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging hounds. — A.S. Byatt

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice. — Cat Cora

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. — Lucy Stone

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man. — Stephen G. Michaud

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive. — James Baldwin

He felt like an animal limping away, some wounded buck that needed to be put down. — Gillian Flynn

Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate. — Harlan Coben

I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate. — William Donaldson

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination. — Sam Snead

Though it was undeclared, there was a new world war being waged, where fundamental decency and respect for human rights were under assault by forces of intolerance, despotism, and blind fervor. And while its battles were sometimes waged in plain sight
in New York City, in Iraq
its greater struggle was carried on invisibly, fought in secret, its heroes unknown, its villains hidden. — James Rollins

Colt thought there was nothing worse than shaking hands with a man whose palm put him in mind of wet noodles. — Anonymous

The waves rolled in like blue metal tubes carrying an egg white of foam on their peaks, then broke in a thousand glittering splinters and came up to the street with an oh of wonder and fear from those watching. — Elena Ferrante

Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering. Boasting says, "I deserve admiration because I have achieved so much." Self-pity says, "I deserve admiration because I have sacrificed so much." Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak.
The reason self-pity does not look like pride is that it appears to be needy. But the need arises from a wounded ego and the desire of the self-pitying is not really for others to see them as helpless, but heroes. The need self-pity feels does not come from a sense of unworthiness, but from a sense of unrecognized worthiness. It is the response of unapplauded pride. — John Piper

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save. — Carlos Santana

The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us - the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us. — James Gunn

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment. — John Spenkelink

It's true I lost my eyesight many years ago. But that doesn't mean I'm blind. — Jan-Philipp Sendker