It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?Yes?Your belief in the importance of your marriage.
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I...
....there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.
There something I can do to get this over with quick? Like, can I just run in front of a cab and take my lumps and we call it even? As opposed to you cutting off my nose and all, I mean.
....and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the...
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
There were few other passengers: a man in an overcoat, his head sunk against his chest; a couple with arms around each other, impervious to their surroundings; and a teenage boy with a black scarf...
When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.
I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that crass treatment of a guest.I nod.Well, some people got no sense of humor, do...
Don't make me come out there and spray you, blanco.I point at my one eye.Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim you want that shit to do any good.
There was a Lieutenant Procházka that didn't scold much. He only called his ordinance: "My graceful cow." His ordinance, such a Hibman, never heard him another improper. This hibman was so used so...
But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time.
she'd looked it up and read the definition {"deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected"}
John Wesley said, "A sour religion is the devil's religion."{284} The sure way to have a sour religion is to believe in a sour God. We play right into the devil's hands when we fail to recognize and...
Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that {lacks} God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the...
She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.
Got Hollow Points? Another said: Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed. A third one: Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo.
You and I may have never met, but I already know so much of what you want: to be happy and feel valued. We all want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and...
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
Augustine was right: It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with...
At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has tossed up there that dangle in testement to some shit that I have never figured out as...
D. Wayne Sharf slid across Winky Butterfield's pasture like a greased weasel headed for a chicken house.
largest producers of orange traffic cones in the United States.
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can't be trusted.
If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick.
The number of hours the average American watches TV has remained steady, at about four and a half hours a day, every day {by age sixty-five, a person will have spent twelve uninterrupted years in...
But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in...
It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice, a destructive defense mechanism, forcing others to listen to the most...
I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so... The more I can, the better.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
