Deerslayer Quotes

#1. Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Mark Twain

#2. Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

Jethro Tull

#3. If you believe the good stuff that people say then you have to believe the bad stuff and then you allow yourself to be on a roller coaster of what other people think. So I think you try to find the good in the bad and the bad in the good and balance yourself and stay on an even keel.

Ashton Kutcher

#4. Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

Matt Bomer

#5. We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself - like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down - one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

David Byrne

#8. Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

Matisyahu

#9. The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.
Julia to Charles

Evelyn Waugh

#10. In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have gotten anywhere anyway. But it definitely set me back to be in so much pain.

Lynne Tillman

#11. The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

Austin Kleon

#12. Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

Rick Riordan

#13. I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Patricia McConnell

#14. When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

Tennessee Williams

#16. I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.

Clive Stafford Smith