Grassy Knoll Quotes

#1. I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

Trevor Linden

#2. We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,

Agatha Christie

#3. You know what, man? I am going to literally - if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready - because you know what? It's for my country. It's for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it's for my country.

Christopher Titus

#4. The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Ken MacLeod

#5. I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

Patti Davis

#6. That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.

Wanda Sykes

#7. Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

Yvor Winters

#9. The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Francis Bacon

#11. What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.

Lorrie Moore

#12. If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Charles Baxter

#13. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer

April White

#14. QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of "thinking in pure meanings." I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth - it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think about thinking.

Oliver Sacks

#16. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

Noah Hawley

#17. I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

Arlen Specter

#18. For as long as I write,
I will never be lost.

Nikki Rowe

#19. The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

Gustave Flaubert

#20. there's very little passion in taking the safe approach.

Sharon Pope