Tank Dempsey Quotes & Sayings

Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone. — Norman Maclean

It takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to stop everyone who's moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great leap, find what we didn't know we were looking for, and yet continue to contain contradictions for generations. (Pandora's Box and the Volunteer Police Force) — Rebecca Solnit

You promise not to maim me?"
"I promise to give fair warning before I maim you. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world? — Italo Calvino

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. — Eric Liu

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe. — Sherry Stringfield

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. — Anton Chekhov

Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit. — Jane Austen

Ah, the first rule of public speaking
always start with a joke. — Jon Stewart

Don't worry about me. I'll be getting on with it. — Morgan Callan Rogers