Crook County Quotes

#1. The longer one lives, the less valued is that life. Why is that?

Steven Erikson

#2. You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Mark Edwards

#4. The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.

Hippocrates

#5. A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca The Younger

#6. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. Light

Raymond Chandler

#7. Do not act following customary beliefs.

Miyamoto Musashi

#8. [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

Elsa Maxwell

#9. But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

Ernest Lehman

#10. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated,

Ayn Rand

#11. He smiled again. I kept staring. Then I said, "My name is Tillary Quilter."
"You called. We have an appointment. I'm a trained investigator, so I figured that one out.

Shelly Reuben

#12. Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz.

Beck

#13. I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Robert Jordan