Orchard Keeper Quotes

#1. I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

Stephen King

#2. 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Jerome Charyn

#3. Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#4. I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

William J. Clinton

#5. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Henry Mintzberg

#6. I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Graham Nelson

#7. The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

Winston Churchill

#8. He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.

Steven E. Landsburg

#10. Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

E. O. Wilson

#11. The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Kevin Bacon

#12. A watched pot never boils. That's all you need to know about quantum physics.

Matt Haig

#13. The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Hannah Arendt

#14. One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!

Dada Bhagwan