Butcher's Crossing Quotes

#1. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973.

John Edward Williams

#2. I like to play pranks on my girlfriend, you know, keep things fresh for me, make me laugh, you know? She hates it. But like, the other night, I put Saran wrap over the toilet seat, you know, which doesn't sound that original, but she's bulimic.

Anthony Jeselnik

#3. How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

Jackie Kay

#4. Being courageous is less painful than being unhappy

Steven Aitchison

#5. Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Arthur Golden

#6. If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

Thaksin Shinawatra