Randal White > Randal's Quotes

“If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.”
― John Gierach

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“It (a singer's voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman's hand.”
― Michael Perry

“There commenced an epic snit.”
― Michael Perry, Truck: A Love Story

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”
― Drake

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.”
― Max Hastings, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945

“What’s a Mennonite?” Vance asked. “Amish with blenders.”
― Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler