Lecharles Bentley Quotes

#1. Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward - like flannel pajamas that hadn't been changed for a month, or like Irish stew.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Robert Purvis

#4. What was it with gay men and art photos of nude male torsos?

David Pratt

#5. Sometimes the peanut; sometimes the shell.

Anonymous

#6. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Robertson Davies

#7. Remember, if you fail you can start a new life for yourself in North Carolina.

Grace Helbig

#8. Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train.

Truman Capote

#9. Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Maureen Dowd

#10. Johnson saw preoccupation with principle and procedure as a sign of impotence. Such men were "troublemakers," more concerned with appearing forceful than in exercising the real strengths that led to tangible achievement.

Doris Kearns Goodwin