Funny Pioneer Sayings

#1. But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn't matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning.

Robert Bloch

#2. In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.

Jojo Moyes

#3. Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

Johnny Hart

#4. If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

P.C. Chinick

#5. Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

Vitruvius

#6. I didn't come to see Sammie. I came to talk to you. And I'm not high. Exactly." "Then what are you? Exactly?" "Available, sexy and free for the rest of the night." And that's when I threw up in my mouth a little.

Chantay M. James

#7. My sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

John Geddes

#8. Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')

Dogen

#9. Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate

#10. I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

Curt Gowdy

#11. Many people have stopped growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Many have stopped living and now just bide their time before it becomes official.

Tony Curl

#12. Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

William Golding

#13. You can only eat so much white cake.

Christopher Moore

#14. Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they're social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That's the goal.

Graham Moore