Encargados Quotes

#1. There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Lafcadio Hearn

#2. The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#3. He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

Alan Jackson

#4. I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

James Caan

#5. I can't do it, Gideon! I can't make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you loathed me like poison the next!"
Gideon said, after a brief pause, "I'd much rather be kissing you the whole time than loathing you, but you don't exactly make it easy for me.

Kerstin Gier

#6. Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Thomas Jefferson