“I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.” IfsNeedsWritingStillsDoneWishWatchesCrossesLuckFilledFingersGood LuckWish YouSharksGood WritingLagoons Author:Margaret Atwood
“There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.” StillsTodaySonBiggerFingersPaintRingsPensTrendsLazinessFeedingRobesHogProdigalsProdigal SonBigger And Better Author:Vance Havner
“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.” PeopleFirstsLittlesStillsSometimesLinesFiguresTablesFingersWarmDinnerBreadSculptureBourgeoisDinner TableDoughModellingBickeringFrench Bread Author:Louise Bourgeois
“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsEarthFacesWaterCommonSunMysteryTreeGreenShiningFingersDepthLakesQuartersMudLimbsSkeletonsMuddySun ShinesSlimeCypressesCypress Trees Author:Irvin S. Cobb
“One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.” PeopleYearsStillsIdeasRememberNextAsksJesusBreakMissingStudentsModelsFingersSorryEightErasCaliforniaGovernorsNext TimeItemsNapsDelusionalCitingBerkeleyNiceness Author:Ann Coulter