Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“Two small bags of nuts with a tag, stale nuts for squirrels. Right away I remembered a story Hope Carrithers liked to tell. A little boy was watching another little boy eat a big red apple. “Can I have the core?” he asked. The other boy answered, “Ain’t gonna be no core.” That is what I will tell the squirrels. They can’t read, and they don’t know nuts are for squirrels anyway.”
― Sam Keith, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

“News never changes much. It’s just the same things happening to different people. I would rather experience things happening to me than read about them happening to others. I am my own newspaper and my own radio. I honestly don’t believe that man was meant to know everything going on in the world, all at the same time. A man turns on the TV and all those commentators bombard him with the local, the national and the international news. The newspapers do the same thing, and the poor guy with all the immediate problems of his own life is burdened with those of the whole world.”
― Sam Keith, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

“I pulled the picture of Clay out of my pocket. “Any chance this was the guy who robbed you?” The man twisted his face as he pushed the picture away. “Please, no. That man is far too ugly to be a thief. That is simply the face of a rapist.” The”
― Matt McCusker, Overlook: A Story About Drugs, Disappointment and The American Dream

“And the next night “Wuzzles” Worsley was put on trial for “robbing a Presbyterian church of a trouser button out of the offertory bag and having turned the same to base and ignoble use.” The proceedings were long and disorderly. Wild was the judge”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage