Deadfall Quotes

#1. Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.

Jon Clinch

#2. He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush.

Charles Frazier

#3. There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can't teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. All they ever do, really, is look for food and water. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me, but that I was learning from them.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

Anton Chekhov

#5. It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

Carrie Vaughn

#6. Home is a boxcar and it's so far out of reach
Hidden under umbrella beach

Owl City

#7. Irony is only skin deep.

Marty Rubin

#8. Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser. It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning. Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

Christopher Morley

#9. Most never know the condition exists, because the single kidney grows large enough to accommodate

Jan Ellison

#10. The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Alan W. Watts

#11. It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.

Scott Kelly

#12. (Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

Theodore Roethke

#13. And now here I am, suddenly, after all these years, home. I am not exactly the black sheep of my family, but it is not like I am grazing in pastels. Getting

George Hodgman

#14. My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#15. Success is skill inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

Trip Lee