Louis Simpson Quotes

#1. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

#2. And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're doing. And if you take time to share your knowledge with the boys, it'll give them much more than a skill. It'll give them hope.

Deeanne Gist

#3. Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature.

Frans De Waal

#4. It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

Louis Simpson

#5. The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

Louis Simpson

#6. Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?

Jessica Simpson

#7. In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Morley Safer

#8. Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

Lindsey Davis

#9. For me, you're perfect.

Suzanne Collins

#10. I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

Tyson Chandler

#11. Fuck what everybody else thinks. You're living for you, not them.

J.A. Redmerski

#12. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

#13. The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Louis Simpson

#14. Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

Ernest Hollings

#15. All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

Louis Simpson

#16. Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.

Louis Simpson

#17. People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

Anna Quindlen

#18. Mac has a sexy breakfast story." "Really?" Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on the table of the breakfast nook. "Tell all." "It began, and sexy tales often do, when I spilled Diet Coke on my shirt.

Nora Roberts

#19. Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.

Jeanne C. Stein

#20. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#21. I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter.

Louis Simpson

#22. For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.

Louis Simpson

#23. In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country
mud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

Louis Simpson

#24. Don't let your rage overcome you no matter in what situation.

Gosho Aoyama