Oct 7 Quotes

#1. Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#2. Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
[Letter to Max E. Feckler, Oct. 26, 1914]

Jack London

#3. It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Wynne McLaughlin

#4. See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. - George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

George W. Bush

#5. All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

Salman Rushdie

#6. Smartass Student : 'a man must have his own master.'
Master of Stupidity: 'yea, everyone's somebody's bitch.

Toba Beta

#7. Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.

Eugene Kennedy

#8. I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Sam Ervin

#9. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. I would lose you forever, and I've only ever wanted you.

Darynda Jones

#11. Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

Charles Duhigg

#12. I see you giving my sweater the stink eye, mister.

Daisy Prescott

#13. Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Josephine Hart

#14. In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

Ronald Kessler

#15. Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.

George Vecsey

#16. I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.

Gary Shteyngart

#17. Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

Simon Sinek

#18. Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

John O'Hara

#19. That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

David O. McKay

#20. But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.
[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]

Hilary Mantel

#21. Dyer 5 bu Paid 3.50 Hogs and Cattle Aug 23 9 hogs to K.C. 74.38 24 1 " " " 15.93 Oct 18 1 cow " " 32.85

David McCullough

#22. After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

Hank Williams Jr.

#23. Each woman is responsible for her own happiness. Let us strive to cultivate this spirit of gladness in our homes and let it shine in our faces wherever we go. Oct 1987

Barbara W. Winder

#24. I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. (Oct. 28th is officially Slap A Dead Poet Day in our Family now)

Joanne Sherman

#25. There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'
- Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

George W. Bush

#26. And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the prehistory of the sandwich, and whether the ancient Romans got their togas caught in the spokes of their unicycles

Laini Taylor

#27. We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little
of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion]

William Hazlitt

#28. When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Chelsea Clinton