Tarbox Jeep Quotes & Sayings

One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment. — Susanna Kaysen

Finally I had made that necessary imaginative leap - which is a real necessity, since most of us writers can't be out there living like crazy all the time. These days, very few are the writers whose book jackets list things like bush pilot, big game hunter, or exotic dancer. No, more often we are English teachers. We have children, we have mortgages, we have bills to pay. So we have to stop writing strictly about what we know, which is what they always told us to do in creative writing classes. Instead, we have to write about what we can learn, and what we can imagine, and thus we come to experience that great pleasure Anne Tyler noted when somebody asked her why she writes, and she answered, I write because I want more than one life. — Lee Smith

Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and over.
I was confused.
How could I be in love with a girl and a boy, at the same time?
I was trapped forever.
You know what I mean. — Andrew Smith

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees. — Willa Cather

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. — Steve Corbett

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness. — Stephen Jay Gould

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan ... — Rosita Forbes

I will always love to perform standup comedy. — Shelley Berman

Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. — Dave Bristol

I lean over to him and put my palms on his smooth cheeks. "That's how I know you're still a boy. Because you're so sure." He — Jenny Han

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals. — Mitt Romney

Donald Trump, I'm not afraid of you. — Maria Kanellis