Dino Ortolani Quotes

#1. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

Richard Dawkins

#2. In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

Roberto Clemente

#3. She may know what I am, though," Lorena said.
"Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

Larry McMurtry

#4. Stay where you are." It's a raspy male voice. A whiskey voice or just someone who took a hit to the throat hard enough that it never healed right. There are six other guys behind him. All are armed with homemade blades, morning stars, and slings. "Who

Richard Kadrey

#5. Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the almost-empty alley of the road like a lost dog being whipped through a strange and terrible place.

Stephen King

#6. Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

David Pajo

#7. I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.

Lincoln Hall

#8. The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

David Mamet

#9. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

Cormac McCarthy

#10. A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

Chris Rock

#11. All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

Foxy Brown