Petraco Douglas Quotes

#1. Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be
and are ruined.

W.K. Marriott

#2. Big cities squeeze the ability to be patient right out of people. Life becomes too frantic and rushed. It's a sad thing.

Deb Baker

#3. Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Mark Twain

#5. Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

J. Lincoln Fenn

#6. Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

John Masefield

#7. A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

Mos Def

#9. A life where you didn't follow your heart wasn't a life. And sometimes you just had to make the leap and trust in something that didn't make sense.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#10. Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

Cobie Smulders

#11. The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed ...

John Of The Cross