Bill Halsey Quotes

#1. I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

Jeff Shelby

#2. I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Lyle Lovett

#3. Wakeful nights often give people useless thoughts.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie

David Bowie

#5. Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

Haile Selassie

#6. [Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)

Robert Leckie

#7. A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.

Mark Rubinstein

#8. It was decided. I was going to let Ryan Foster do me. I had no idea when it would happen, but it was inevitable. If he kept being this cute, it was inevitable.

S. Walden

#9. Sid slapped her hands on the bar. "Good Lord, woman, unclench your sphincter and have another drink.

Terri Osburn

#10. The Future," says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. "Coming soon, to a Present near you.

David Mitchell

#11. I wonder if anyone feels as though they're the same person they seem to remember. It would make them have a nervous breakdown. It probably wouldn't even make sense. I don't know if this is enough. I don't know what anybody else has told you.

David Foster Wallace

#12. For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

Carla Hall