Footings For Deck Quotes

#1. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

Walter Prescott Webb

#2. I think they named the orange before the carrot.

Demetri Martin

#3. How'd you remember my brother's name?" She shrugged, not quite understanding the gleam in his eye. "You told me. Why wouldn't I remember it?

Sarah J. Maas

#4. Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Ronald Reagan

#5. It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

Deb Caletti

#7. My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#8. I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Charles Kuralt

#9. If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

Milt Jackson

#10. I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

LIZ

#11. Let's see, the last guy I dated - is there a word for someone who's sexually attracted to Muppets? Andrea's elegant persona was destroyed as she laughed so hard martini shot out of her nose.

Molly Harper

#12. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

Marcel Tabuteau