Top 100 Erskine Quotes
#1. What's wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn't think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine's death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn't show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.
Dorothy Dunnett
#2. You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.
Oscar Wilde
#3. And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed it clean on the floor.
Dorothy Dunnett
#4. no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.
Neil Peart
#6. She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.
Ned Beauman
#7. Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.
Joyce Carol Oates
#8. I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
Alison Weir
#9. At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
Edward P. Jones
#10. I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.
Peter George Peterson
#11. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
Joyce Carol Oates
#12. The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
Oscar Wilde
#13. I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.
Kathryn Erskine
#14. Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#15. I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.
Kathryn Erskine
#16. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Erskine Caldwell
#18. The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
Erskine Bowles
#20. Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
John Erskine
#22. I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#23. You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you ...
Erskine Caldwell
#24. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.
Ebenezer Erskine
#25. What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#26. Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#27. I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
Erskine Caldwell
#28. I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Thomas Erskine
#29. To witness a fallen tree, but hear no sound......creates an illusion of its importance.
R.W. Erskine
#30. To create laughter, you must first learn to smile
R.W. Erskine
#31. You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses ... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
Erskine Bowles
#32. And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
Erskine Bowles
#33. I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine
#34. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.
Derek Landy
#35. We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies ... quality!
Peter Erskine
#36. It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#38. I wish people would follow the Facial Expressions Chart like they're supposed to.
Kathryn Erskine
#39. The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#41. In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Thomas Erskine
#42. I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
Erskine Bowles
#43. Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
Erskine Caldwell
#44. To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.
R.W. Erskine
#45. Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.
Erskine Caldwell
#47. It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#48. Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#49. It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#50. I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.
R.W. Erskine
#51. Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.
Erskine Bowles
#52. Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was ... What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.
Graves B. Erskine
#54. Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.
Erskine Caldwell
#56. Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#57. I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.
Kathryn Erskine
#58. Haven't you ever seen someone standing alone?
I shrug. Just one.
Why don't you talk to that child?
Because it's me and Devon told me I shouldn't talk to myself. Not in public anyway
Kathryn Erskine
#61. There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine
#62. Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.
Barbara Erskine
#63. You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
Carl Erskine
#65. It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.
John Erskine
#66. We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#67. In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
John Erskine
#68. We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
Erskine Bowles
#69. It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
Erskine Bowles
#70. I think about what Devon would say. You have to Work At It Dad. You have to try even if it's hard and you think you can never do it and you just want to scream and hide and shake your hands over and over and over.
Kathryn Erskine
#71. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
Erskine Bowles
#72. This world is not the sum total of God's resources
on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#73. He can kick as hard as he wants but he cannot destroy what is inside. I have a strong spirit and the Rat will never take that away from me, no matter what he does.
-Matt
Kathryn Erskine
#74. The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#75. To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#79. When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#80. Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.
Erskine Childers
#81. I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.
Erskine Bowles
#82. I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
Erskine Caldwell
#83. Blurring is good for the things you don't want to see but it doesn't work so well for the stuff you actually have to Deal With.
Kathryn Erskine
#84. To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.
R.W. Erskine
#85. All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#86. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
#87. I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
Carl Erskine
#89. To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#90. We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.
Peter Erskine
#91. The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much
or more
*cymbal* players, as we are drummers.
Peter Erskine
#93. There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
Peter Erskine
#94. He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.
Erskine Caldwell
#95. Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ...
Janet Erskine Stuart
#97. I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.
Erskine Childers
#99. Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.
Kathryn Erskine
#100. The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.
Janet Erskine Stuart
