Any Other Name Quotes

“Don’t you think scars make better stories than tattoos?”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“he’s like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it’s too late to change your mind.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Dog's ears went up at the word "ham": they say dogs have a vocabulary of about twenty words, and I was pretty sure that seventeen of Dog's were ham.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“I hung up, figuring that if this was the last three minutes of my life, I didn't want to spend them extraordinarily annoyed.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“It would be nice if life weren’t so messy, but that’s just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make—and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it’s what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“They say statistics by their nature don’t lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .” “Amen to that, and the other?” “Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“We are finite beings; how can we understand the infinite?”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“More people die in highway-rail crossings in the United States each year than in all commercial and general aviation crashes combined.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“mindless”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“stop groaned with the wind that had”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“I hung up figuring that I didn't want to spend the last 3 minutes of my life being extraordinarily annoyed!”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“I was sweating like a bottle of beer in a biker bar”
― Craig Johnson , Any Other Name

“I just don’t understand any of it. I guess I’ve fought so hard to keep my life that I can’t conceive of a situation where I’d voluntarily give it up.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“That’s the problem with guilt, it’s a two-way street; our children have to live with the things we do, and sometimes we have to live with their actions.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“We stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it’s what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Sometimes I get to where I feel like I'm the only one getting it in the shorts in this life, you know?”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“holding it secure, sort of. I held out the posters and slid them through the opening. “I thought you might want these.” She took them and then placed her face closer to the opening—I could see that she’d been crying. “They took my stapler.” “Yep, well . . . You have to have a concealed/carry permit for those things here in Wyoming.” She smiled. “I nailed him, didn’t I?” “Stapled him, to be exact. Don’t feel so bad about it. I did something like that in Vietnam once.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name

“With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.”
― Craig Johnson, Any Other Name