I. D. Douglas Quotes
Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.
There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.
One quick snort and the pharmaceutical worm burrows deeper into my heart.
The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.
I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please.
You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.”“God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you?
I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing.
Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart.”~Ed
There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032
When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?
We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.
To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.
I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.
And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?
Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.
I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
