Bumpkins Crossword Quotes

#1. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

Dat Phan

#2. Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. All men are tragic ... All men are comic ... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

John Lubbock

#5. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#6. Now be a dear and fuck the fuck off.

Brian K. Vaughan

#7. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Boris Kodjoe

#8. My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

Laozi

#9. The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

#10. I try to be able for life to happen to me.

Bill Murray

#11. Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

Amy Lane

#12. By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

Peter Diamandis

#13. ... one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

David Graeber