Nohow Quotes

#1. If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

Samuel Beckett

#3. It didn't amount to a fart in a windstorm, nohow.

Ferrol Sams

#4. She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time.

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.

Louise Meriwether

#6. Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

Walt Kelly

#7. Eulogy - especially from a young lass who, as he informed his mother that evening, had such uncommon eyes, they looked somehow as they made him feel nohow.

George Eliot

#8. There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow.

Mark Twain

#9. That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Sometimes I imagine life itself as merely a long preparation and waiting, a long darkness of growth toward these adventures of the spirit, a picaresque novel, so to speak, in which the episodes are all inward.

May Sarton

#12. Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion.

Samuel Goldwyn

#14. I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#15. As her voice finally swells and the song runs out of words, I know I have lost her. She becomes something more important; and she was right, I do not understand.

Pierce Brown

#16. 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Bob Costas

#17. I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

N. T. Wright

#18. Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

Neil Jordan

#19. Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.

Lauren Groff

#20. Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with
a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better

Allan Pease

#21. We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

Jenny Downham