Old Frontier Sayings

#1. Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson

#2. There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

#3. Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Stanley Baldwin

#4. Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Jonathan Shapiro

#5. I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.

T.C. Boyle

#6. Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Martha Ostenso

#7. Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Rem Koolhaas

#8. Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

Barbara Smoker

#9. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Kim Gordon

#10. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

Mario Cuomo

#11. Time is only a kind of Space.

H.G.Wells

#12. Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.

Erin Bowman