Clay Pigeons Quotes

#1. Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands.

Jessica Kristie

#2. The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.

Jill Wagner

#3. In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

#4. Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

Peter Matthiessen

#5. The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you right down with it.

Sue Grafton

#6. Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Eula Biss

#7. Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn't, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.

R.J. Palacio

#8. My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

Jamie Dornan

#9. I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Robert Boswell

#10. When you feel anger, it always means there is something you are not understanding.

M.G. Hawking

#11. Grace put her purse on the floor. "My mother says you must never do that," Ruby chastised. "Mine too," I agreed. "Do you want all your money to run out of your purse?

Lisa See

#12. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton

Gary Keller

#13. Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop

Vanessa Vanney Thompson

#14. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Parker J. Palmer

#15. I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,

Horton Foote

#16. In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.

Nick Love

#17. Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn't want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes.

Stephen King

#18. I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

Anthony Head