Eberhart Quotes

#1. The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

Frank Eberhart

#2. In the Fortune Cookie of Life, I don't want to be known as anonymous.

Julie Eberhart Painter

#3. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

Thomas Bidegain

#4. The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#5. The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Richard Eberhart

#6. Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Richard Eberhart

#7. Murder is not polite.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#8. I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Richard Eberhart

#9. Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Richard Eberhart

#10. The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;
Long gone, long 'fore he'll be back.

M.J. Eberhart

#11. I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#12. If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

Richard Eberhart

#13. I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

Amy Adams

#14. It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

Richard Eberhart

#15. Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?

Richard Eberhart

#16. Life is stranger than any of us expected,
There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Richard Eberhart

#17. If you're doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Martha Beck

#18. I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#19. Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Richard Eberhart

#20. You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
History, even, does not know what is meant.

Richard Eberhart

#21. Murder is a plant of slow growth ...

Mignon G. Eberhart

#22. Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

Richard Eberhart

#23. A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#24. I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused something to break. The fact that almost every case involves opposing experts just serves to confirm this difficulty.

Mark Eberhart

#25. Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

Angel Cabrera

#26. Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#27. Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Richard Eberhart