Top 30 Frank Dobie Quotes
#1. If I'm not back in a few hours ... well, I don't want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing this. I'm thinking happy thoughts. Creamed dog innards and rotten steak. Yeah. Yum! (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.
Susane Colasanti
#3. The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world - - the cowboy songs of Texas and the West - - are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
J. Frank Dobie
#4. The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#5. No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
J. Frank Dobie
#6. The upstairs was hopeless: all her clothes, Dale's suits, everything belonging to the boys. And everywhere the powerful, sickening smell of ashes and water.
Darcy O'Brien
#7. The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
J. Frank Dobie
#8. When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
J. Frank Dobie
#9. I am so tired of waking to the blank canvass of morning and realizing it won't be painted with you.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#10. Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
#11. Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.
Julia Ormond
#12. Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect.
Louise Mullins
#13. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
William Osler
#14. The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
#15. I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.
Elmore Leonard
#16. The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
J. Frank Dobie
#17. Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."
J. Frank Dobie
#18. A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner ... but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
J. Frank Dobie
#20. Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
J. Frank Dobie
#21. I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie
#22. Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
J. Frank Dobie
#23. The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.
Frank Abagnale
#24. I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
#26. Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie
#29. The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
J. Frank Dobie
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