Top 100 Laird Quotes
#1. This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
Robert Teeter
#2. We've figured out our roles: I wanted someone to take care of the male roles - the big stuff - and Laird [Hamilton] does that very well. I'm here to be the mom and make it better for him, and that's my choice.
Gabrielle Reece
#3. My laird, two riders are at the front gates and insist to speak with only ye. They also have a woman traveling with them.
Victoria Roberts
#4. But I daresay, a lass can't think in a straight line w'out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait.
Patricia Strefling
#5. Early one morning, before the sun had fully risen over the horizon, he sent two messengers on horseback, each to deliver the royal decree to Laird Armstrong and Laird Montgomery. He only hoped to hell that they didn't kill each other at the wedding.
Maya Banks
#6. Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
Terry Pratchett
#7. I pronounce ye married, laird and lady. No' 'til death will ye part. And now, Toran," he added with a wink, "ye may kiss the bride.
Willa Blair
#8. The idiot Scotch laird in the story would not let the dentist put his fingers into his mouth, "for I'm feared ye'll bite me".
Andrew Lang
#9. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].
Bill Bryson
#10. I can see ye're in a mood to be bossy. I suppose since ye're a laird ye must be used to giving orders and having them obeyed. I'll oblige ye this once, but in future, I will continue to question ye.
Eliza Knight
#11. Mena knew men like the Laird of Ravencroft Keep rarely existed, and when they did, history made gods of them.
Or demons.
Kerrigan Byrne
#12. His marriage was of infinitely more salvation to the laird than if it had set him free from all his worldly embarrassments, for it set him growing again - and that is the only final path out of oppression.
George MacDonald
#13. The Laird of Coll was undoubtedly a hard man. He didn't smile often, but when he did, it was as if the sun broke through the clouds. And he was smiling right now as she considered his question, knowing very well that she was enjoying herself.
Monica McCarty
#14. The laird wasn't uppermost on her mind
this morning. Sleep was.
Another giggle raced around the room,
and Mairin realized that once again, she'd
given voice to her thoughts.
Maya Banks
#15. The legendary Tuatha De Danaan had come! And what did the grand Keltar laird do?
Fainted like a willy-nilly peahen.
Karen Marie Moning
#16. Sometimes being a Highland Laird was a royal pain in the arse.
Victoria Roberts
#17. Laird suffered second degree burns ... in the frank and beans area, if you know what I mean.
Trent winced. That must have been one hell of a breakup.
Jennifer Shirk
#18. Slow down, my lady. You're going to injure yourself!"
"Not myself," she muttered. "Your laird,
more likely.
Maya Banks
#19. Woman, I've crushed more Campbells than ye'll ever know, and Ill go to my grave with a Campbell's heart clutched within my fingers."
"Will that heart be mine, my laird?"
"It might.
Paula Quinn
#20. ...it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero.
Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF THE MIST
Paula Quinn
#21. The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
Laird Hamilton
#22. It is fine if you can jog when you are ninety, but it is better if you can think.
Carobeth Laird
#23. Don't be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. It's one of the most powerful tools you've got.
Laird Hamilton
#24. The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.
Laird Barron
#26. She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.
Nick Laird
#27. The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.
Laird Barron
#28. I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.
Laird Hamilton
#29. Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the stony earth.
Laird Barron
#30. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.
Elizabeth Laird
#31. Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
Laird Barron
#32. It grew steadily dimmer, God's thumb on the dial.
Laird Barron
#34. Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall
Laird Hamilton
#35. The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.
Laird Hamilton
#36. I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
Laird Barron
#38. The subconscious is a doorway to the infinite.
Laird Barron
#39. Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.'
Well, here I come.
Laird Hunt
#40. He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.
Nick Laird
#41. Neither light nor heat could withstand it; to gaze into that nullity and to comprehend its scope was to have one's humanity snuffed. Only the inhuman thrived in out there in deep black.
Laird Barron
#42. I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."
"Oh. You're a bit east.
Laird Barron
#43. Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.
Charlton Laird
#44. In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.
Laird Hamilton
#45. Arthur said, "Let's be cool and not get busted. I advise rest and relaxation, and definitely a bath. You guys smell like booze and cheap whores."
Dred sniffed. "He's right. We do. Woof.
Laird Barron
#46. Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
Charlton Laird
#47. Most of life seems to be finding that line between one extreme and another and walking it. This is called judgement. Too many folk try to avoid it by claiming every issue is black or white.
Michael Laird
#48. Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due.
Laird Barron
#49. I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.
Laird Hamilton
#50. Take a picture of God, tack it on the wall and see who bows.
Laird Barron
#51. Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.
Martin Laird
#52. The amplified ukulele music was giving me a migraine.
Laird Barron
#53. Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
Charlton Laird
#54. People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.
Laird Hamilton
#55. California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving.
Laird Hamilton
#56. Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
Laird Barron
#57. My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
Laird Barron
#58. Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.
Laird Hamilton
#59. It's about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It's about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.
Laird Barron
#60. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
#62. You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.
Laird Hamilton
#63. If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
Laird Hamilton
#65. Robert Service once said dying is easy, it's the keeping on living that's hard, and of course the poet was on the money, as poets usually are when it comes to smugly self-evident affirmations.
Laird Barron
#66. For they were the stuff of nightmares; maggoty abominations possessed of incalculable and vile intellect that donned flesh and spines of men and beasts to shield themselves from the sun and enable themselves to walk upright instead of merely slithering.
Laird Barron
#67. Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up.
Laird Barron
#68. A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
Melvin Laird
#69. Reality was a makeshift prop, an amalgamation of agreed-upon conjecture, a consensus of self-limiting parameters and paradigms made palatable by endless speculation fueled by madness and hope and no mean amount of good dope.
Laird Barron
#70. I think the key to happiness is maximizing each day. So if you're unhappy, here's a simple prescription: Live harder.
Laird Hamilton
#71. Your path is yours alone. And if it's the path less traveled, that's absolutely fine. The world doesn't need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search.
Laird Hamilton
#72. I do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can't go somewhere to just hang out with friends.
Laird Hamilton
#73. The elder Navarro had believed, as did the ancient philosophers of the Far East, that the cosmos ultimately revealed itself as a repeating pattern, an infinitely replicating superstructure contained and embodied in a galaxy, down to a drop of blood.
Laird Barron
#74. All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
Laird Hamilton
#75. Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
Laird Hamilton
#76. We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.
Nick Laird
#77. In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.
Melvin Laird
#78. I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.
Laird Hamilton
#79. To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.
Donald Laird
#80. The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
Laird Barron
#81. There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.
Laird Hamilton
#82. Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
Laird Barron
#83. An English girl might well believe
that time is how you spend your love.
Nick Laird
#84. Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.
Laird Hamilton
#85. The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.
Laird Koenig
#86. The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children ... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.
Charlton Laird
#87. The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straightening as he or she drew nearer. Unfolding ...
Laird Barron
#88. You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.
Charlton Laird
#90. The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.
Charlton Laird
#91. Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.
Donald Laird
#92. Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.
Laird Hamilton
#93. He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
Laird Barron
#94. God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.
Martin Laird
#95. You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they're going to end up.
Laird Barron
#96. People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
Laird Hamilton
#97. Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
Laird Barron
#98. - Only fools and the dead never change their mind.
Laird Barron
#99. There is such a shelter in each other.
Nick Laird
#100. When you don't use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I'm not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn't worth it.
Laird Hamilton
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