Nuthin But Good Quotes

#1. Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

William Shakespeare

#2. Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?

Alice Munro

#3. Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.

Dennis E. Taylor

#4. The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#5. Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. She makes a stone-face, drops her voice an octave.
-No. No. No. My name is Joe Pitt and I don't do nuthin' I don't want to do and I won't even listen because I don't know a good thing when I have it and I'd rather be all fucked up and tragic and go hurt people.

Charlie Huston

#7. Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

Michael Reaves

#8. When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

Herman Melville

#9. Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality.

James Gleick

#10. When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

George Eliot

#11. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

Vivien Leigh

#12. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches?

Ransom Riggs

#14. I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

Julianna Baggott

#15. Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

Brian Koppelman