Creel Quotes

#1. I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

Aldo Leopold

#2. ...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.

Publishers Weekly

#3. There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

John D. Voelker

#4. There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel.

Richard Brautigan

#5. eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

Ann Howard Creel

#6. [Livvy and her father] Neither of us had been as strong as we'd wanted to be.

Ann Howard Creel

#7. When I'd headed out here on my wedding day, I hadn't realized I'd bought a ticket to my own history, a different one from studying Akh-en-aten and Horizon-of-the-Aten, maybe, but a living, ongoing one.

Ann Howard Creel

#8. My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Lynda Resnick

#9. As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I'd closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all.

Ann Howard Creel

#10. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid
what will compare with it?

Herman Melville

#11. I'm a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country.

Gavin Creel

#12. Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'...In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.

Ann Howard Creel

#13. Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Seneca The Younger

#14. makes us no promises, no guarantees. Things move toward us whether we want them or not. Accidents occur, illnesses strike, and bombs fall. One street can be pulverized, the next one over not even scratched. Chance is so shifty and arbitrary.

Ann Howard Creel

#15. Separately we might have sunk, but together we moved beyond bloodlines and nationalities and backgrounds and formed a vessel that somehow stayed afloat.

Ann Howard Creel

#16. [Ray to Livvy] Aren't you used to people meaning what they say?

Ann Howard Creel

#17. One can't step into the river twice

Ann Howard Creel

#18. Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.

Ann Howard Creel

#19. My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped presents of their thoughts, confident that no one would refuse them.

Ann Howard Creel

#20. I'd become a woman who dreamed of yelling at people who didn't even know how infuriating I found them.

Ann Howard Creel

#21. I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

Iris Apfel

#22. You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Caroline Knapp

#23. If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway - is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Patricia Briggs

#24. Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

Ann Howard Creel