1942 Half Dollar Quotes

#1. I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don't take zombies into consideration. I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Jim Butcher

#2. But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence?

Carolyn McCray

#3. We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. There is love and then there is fluff. Nothing else.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.

Gillian Flynn

#6. Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

Tom Robbins

#7. Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.

Jon Gordon

#8. The Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

Agatha Christie

#10. To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#11. What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

Warren Miller

#13. It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They're not. They're pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.

Fannie Flagg