Canty Quotes

#1. In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Mark Twain

#2. What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up late worrying that somebody somewhere is getting something that they're not getting." - Erika Jones

Kevin Canty

#4. I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

Jussie Smollett

#5. In all your getting, get understand. Proverbs paraphrased

Katie Canty

#6. Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

David Duchovny

#7. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.

Eldridge Cleaver

#8. We're both serving with some of the brightest lights in Starfleet. It's easy to get lost in the shadows of their brilliance.

Kirsten Beyer

#9. It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.

Kevin Canty

#10. I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.

Kevin Canty

#11. Ulrik's smile grew, while his gold eyes glittered with humor. There are those who think me inconsequential. Others don't know what threat I am. Still others would disregard me. They'll all learn soon enough.

Donna Grant

#12. For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

Slobodan Milosevic

#13. I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Mariah Carey

#14. You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

Anne Lamott

#15. Define yourself by your best moments, not your worst. Find one thing you did do right today, and focus on that.

Trisha Ashworth

#16. Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

Thomas Canty

#17. But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

Philip Gibbs

#18. I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Diana Ross

#19. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst