Count Floyd Sayings

#1. Park hated football. He cried when his dad took him pheasant hunting. Nobody in the neighbourhood could ever tell who he was dressed as on Halloween. ('I'm Doctor Who.' 'I'm Harp Marx.' 'I'm Count Floyd.') And he kind of wanted his mom to give him blond highlights.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#3. A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

Genghis Khan

#4. The sad work of a true artist speaks to us in that tone of people who have suffered, who force anyone who has suffered to drop everything and listen.

Marcel Proust

#5. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#6. Your God is altogether too human.

Martin Luther

#7. I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

Harry Shearer

#8. She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

John Boyne

#10. Lisey didn't care if Darla ate, busted a joint, or took a shit in the begonias. She just wanted to get off the phone.

Stephen King