Hardpan Quotes

#1. And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot

Maurice Sendak

#2. Jesus Fucking Christ, she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

Michael Chabon

#3. I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.

Roger Ebert

#4. Selena feels the hidden things thinning away to black veils you could pop with a fingertip, puddling into harmless sleep on the ground.

Tana French

#5. New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

Kenichi Ohmae

#6. A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

Hannah Arendt

#7. Tried to teach him The Lord's Prayer once." His eyes traveled out beyond the hut for a moment, toward the gritty, featureless hardpan. "Guess this ain't Lord's Prayer country.

Stephen King

#8. I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Alfred Russel Wallace