Pg 269 Quotes

#1. You outlive your wife, then your colleagues and friends, then your accountant and the building doorman. ou no longer attend the opera, because the human bladder can only endure so much. Social engagements require strategy and hearing aid calibrations. pg 269

Dominic Smith

#2. Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269

Doug Dorst

#3. Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Edward Burns

#5. Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

Olusegun Obasanjo

#6. He didn't date women. He fucked them

Jaci Burton

#7. One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#8. ...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.

Rosamund Lupton

#9. Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

Joanne Harris

#10. I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Erma Bombeck

#11. We live to give.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Every kind deed is an act of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Josephus Daniels

#14. "Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.

Paul Davies

#15. Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

Henry Miller