Quotes About Perry's Childhood From In Cold Blood

#1. I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.

Karen Hawkins

#2. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.

Robin Williams

#5. I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Owen Arthur

#6. The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

Will Advise

#7. quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.

Kent Haruf

#8. Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

William Mortensen

#9. When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Lew Wallace

#10. You don't get married for yourself, you get married because you're better together than separate.

Dirk Hayhurst

#11. She's a Portland girl. So I guess that makes us in-laws. Be gentle with me, yeah?

Kylie Scott