Derral Gates Quotes

#1. She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.

Ellis Peters

#2. For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was unsure whether I was a man waking from a dream of death or a dreamer entering a world of loss, a man dreaming of unhappiness or a man waking to grief.

John Connolly

#3. It is a note
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

#4. I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#5. I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

George C. Marshall

#6. Paddy is untall. Paddy hates the term "short" with a passion most folks reserve for the tax man. His distaste for the tax man exceeds known measurement.

Patrick Thomas

#7. Okay, but I swear if you make me watch Frozen more than once, I will never watch with you again. Me: You don't want to build a snowman?

Toni Aleo

#8. Successful people ... focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

John C. Maxwell

#9. After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#10. Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Christina Stead

#11. Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. Wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time.

Mark Twain

#13. Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

Mickey Mantle

#15. Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Samuel Johnson