Uretsky Scott Quotes & Sayings

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. — John Owen

To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn't tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music. Wood carving with chainsaws. Cloggers who danced up a storm with the lower half of their bodies, but held the upper half perfectly still and stared off into the distance stone-faced. Or a group of bluegrass musicians who'd be playing the most raucous tunes imaginable, looking around at each other with bemused expressions that seemed to say where's all that racket comin from?
Phoebe believed that nearly all the adult males everywhere were pretty much the same way. Most of them could manage to keep the top half of themselves under a semblance of control, but the bottom half tended to run wild. As she continued to descend the trail she couldn't help but think that most men were mentally ill below the waist. — Carolyn Jourdan

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~Wraith — Larissa Ione

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure. — William G. Tapply

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight. — Samantha Smith

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee. — William Grimes

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. — H.G.Wells

A wrong is just a wrong no matter who's doin' it or who it's done to. You know someone's doin' wrong and even if it has not one thing to do with you, you do what you can to right that wrong. You don't, you're no kind of person or, at least, no kind I'd wanna know. — Kristen Ashley

You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not. — Steven Redhead

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill. — Toyin Odutola

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti — Shannon Hale

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. — Arthur Hailey