Tilted Barn Quotes & Sayings

It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley, humping toward the center. On both sides were telephone poles, tilted this way and that, up a little, down...

Billboards - down farther an increasing clutter of them. Some road signs. A tottering barn in a waste field, the Mail Pouch ad half weathered away. Other fields. A large wood - almost leafless now - the bare branches netting darkly against the sky. Then down, where the road curved away, a big white farmhouse, trees on the lawn, neat fences - and above it all, way up, a television aerial, struck by the sun, shooting out bars of glare like neon. ("Thompson") — George A. Zorn

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We are their gods, their angels, their devils, and their dreams. We could rule them. — Pippa DaCosta

Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches. — Gary Danielson

Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours. — Jesus

If a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar. — Margaret Deland

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. — Francis Bacon

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson

He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can. — Eric Spitznagel

Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score. — Charles Dickens

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. — Eartha Kitt

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end. — Andrew Klavan

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. — Andy Grove

This game still had its old ritual fascination for Pug; he was following it tensely, smoking a cigar. Once his nostalgia had been keen for the tough youthful combat on the grass, the slamming of bodies, the tricky well-drilled plays, above all for the rare moments of breaking free and sprinting down the field, dodging one man and another with the stands around him a roaring sea of voices. Nothing in his life had since been quite like it. But long ago that nostalgia had departed; those grooves of memory had worn out. To think that lads much younger than his own two sons were out on that chilly field in Philadelphia now, made Victor Henry feel that he had led a very long, multilayered existence, and was now almost a living mummy. Pug! — Herman Wouk

Sir, I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I'm not sir, and that sir is an idiot. — Peter Griffin