Comyns Quotes

#1. The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Robyn Young

#2. Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Michael Burgess

#4. When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies.

Barbara Comyns

#5. Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong.

Barbara Comyns

#7. We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

Daniel Webster

#8. It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

Barbara Comyns

#9. The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Ronald Reagan

#10. Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.

Charles Kuralt

#11. Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[ ... ]

Barbara Comyns

#12. One glimpse of that glistening, tan back, those rangy shoulders, the sweat-slicked black hair, and his libido woke up and started to pray to Cialis, goddess of horny middle-aged men.

Amy Lane

#13. I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

Kate Zambreno

#14. Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in ...

Leonard Cohen

#15. Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

J.C. Ryle

#16. At lunchtime (10:24 p.m.) I went out and bought the L.A. Times.

Charles Bukowski

#17. You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

Yogi Berra

#18. Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See.

Barbara Comyns

#19. We can also take personal initiative to reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most obviously, advertising. One method: "Watch less TV.

Anonymous

#20. Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone.

Barbara Comyns