Linchpin Device Quotes

#1. Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#2. Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. [I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

Steve Toltz

#4. Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Walt Whitman

#5. Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Margaret Drabble

#6. People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

Paul Tough

#7. Again, I think of Carlito. The years I tried to serve his sentence with him, and how he let me. Maybe it was wrong of me, but sometimes I hoped that he'd see in my eyes how I'd stopped living for anything and anyone but him, and that he would tell me not to come back.

Patricia Engel

#8. And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.

Theophile Gautier

#9. His eyes on me with a look in them that could only be described as un ... hap ... pee. Uh-oh.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

Drew Carey

#12. Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#13. When the great theologian and philosopher Rabbi Hillel was challenged to explain the Torah in the time he could stand on one foot, he replied, Do not do unto others that which is repugnant to you. All else is commentary.

Edward O. Wilson

#14. The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Jack Kerouac

#15. I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

Conor Oberst