Guttered Quotes

#1. Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping.
"What'choo do that for!" Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off before Morris had pulled this move.

Edward Lee

#2. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

#3. Deep down," Perry continued, "way, way
rock-bottom, I never thought I could do it. A thing like that.

Truman Capote

#4. Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Barack Obama

#6. Sorry is good. Not repeating the mistake is better.

Walter E. Jacobson

#7. You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

Michele Bachmann

#8. There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

Jason Calacanis

#9. We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

Samuel Richardson

#10. I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

Taiye Selasi

#11. There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

Nathaniel Smith

#12. Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives.

Kristin Hannah

#13. The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Jessica Alba