Fred Chappell Quotes

#1. Wine still tastes for me of the mountaintop of piny woods with a warm spring dawn coming on, and that Spanishy word, Sonoma, is an exotic flavor all to itself.

Fred Chappell

#2. As Carlyle put it - All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been - it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.

Napoleon Hill

#3. I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Sean Connery

#4. There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

Fred Chappell

#5. Ryke smiles back, like he's proud of me. It's yours, little brother. I believe in you.

Krista Ritchie

#6. I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

David Letterman

#8. Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within.

Fred Chappell

#9. Our thoughts were so awesome to us, that no one could speak a word, not even 'Goodbye.' We hugged and clasped and wept silently.

Fred Chappell

#10. In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for...suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.

Fred Chappell

#11. I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

Donald Trump

#12. Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that happened like a Big Bang but based on vessels and light.

Matisyahu

#13. Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

Fred Chappell

#14. Poetry is a mode of consciousness.

Fred Chappell

#15. Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Rob Corddry

#16. The tremendous secrecy of alleys between houses

Jack Kerouac

#17. No, I thank you; I have had an elegant sufficiency of the numerous delicacies. Any more would be an unsophisticated superfluity, for gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have reached the ultimate stage of deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity.

Fred Chappell

#18. If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

Mark The Evangelist

#19. Give love in doses and hope for uselessness.

Michael Strong

#20. The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

Anuj

#21. If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Lionel Jospin

#22. In the midst of life, we are in death.

Fred Chappell