Hicktown Quotes

#1. In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

Gopichand Lagadapati

#3. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

Jeannette Rankin

#4. I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

Sterling Beaumon

#5. The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

Libba Bray

#6. I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

Bruce Dern

#7. If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.

William Zinsser

#8. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

Elvis Presley

#9. Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable ...

Carl Sagan

#10. Writing is like breathing...it's something that I must do or perish.

M.G. Lambert

#11. They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

Pete Maravich

#12. If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#13. I didn't grow up with him, Marie. He didn't raise me. It's easy for me to like him.

Carol Cassella

#14. As she glanced up and saw him, Dr. Anal here looked about as thrilled to see him as he did her.

Miranda Liasson

#15. Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Jennifer Donnelly