Darter Bird Quotes

#1. A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

David Foster Wallace

#2. The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.

Bertrand Russell

#3. The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him glad that this was going down in a rural area where people still had their heads screwed on right about personal defense.

Larry Correia

#4. People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

Andy Andrews

#5. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.

Rita Ora

#6. When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Cynthia Heimel

#7. Tripping and falling are part of what makes living real
Rising and reaching are what make you capture the ideal
Don't sit there mourning
Get up rejoicing
It is a new day...
with a will, there is a way!

Manuela George-Izunwa

#8. I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

Russell Crowe

#9. And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds!

Lewis Carroll

#10. Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

David Souter

#11. The psychological pain
and the ethical shame
of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.

Kenneth Keniston

#12. Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton