Quotes About Sams

#1. Dad the launching pad. Dad the landing zone. Dad the tether that kept Sams - and me - from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.

Rick Yancey

#2. Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.

Jarrett McCall

#3. Everything's broken?" he asked Cassie. "Everything?"
"No, not everything, Sams," she answered. "Not this."
She took his hand and put it against his chest, and his pounding heart pushed fiercely against his open palm.
"Unbroken," she said.

Rick Yancey

#4. Don't let them get me, Cassie. Don't let me die.'
'You're not going to die, Sams.'
'Promise?'
I Promised.

Rick Yancey

#5. If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace ... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need.

William R. Looney III

#6. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#7. An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

Joseph Addison

#8. The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Jimmy Carter

#9. How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

Greg Sams

#10. These new groups would act as the privatized auxiliary force Rove had been dreaming of for years. Rove told the moneymen, "People call us a vast right-wing conspiracy, but we're really a half-assed right-wing conspiracy. Now," he emphasized, "it's time to get serious.

Jane Mayer

#11. I haven't learned yet to be the instrument of unconscious good.

Ferrol Sams

#12. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson

#13. On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude

William Wordsworth

#14. I ain't looking to comply," John said, "I violate people's rights every day, reckon I'm an expert what mine are. I'll be around."

--John Bassler on being asked to leave town in the upcoming book Chokoloskee.

Charles Sams

#15. All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

Jori Sams

#16. Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

A.D. Sams

#17. She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine ... She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her.

Victor Gischler

#18. 'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

Richard LaGravenese

#19. I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

Charlie Rowe

#20. I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'

Jeremy Shada

#21. The words are said. We're one. You will have my name and all that I own, Nova. We are one. You saved my life. But more than that, you saved my soul.

Candace Sams

#22. The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Eric Hoffer

#23. I've been careful what I've put my name to.

Evangeline Lilly

#24. I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

Douglas Coupland

#25. I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#26. He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

Ferrol Sams

#27. Many struggling students who genuinely want to learn fall behind instead. Others are so busy that they miss out on key concepts. Still others learn how to "play school," but never really learn important objectives in their courses.

Aaron Sams

#28. It didn't amount to a fart in a windstorm, nohow.

Ferrol Sams

#29. Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

Jamie Sams

#30. Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

Jamie Sams

#31. I born for people not for myself.

SAMS

#32. Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

Ferrol Sams

#33. Are you a drinker?' the doctor asked. I heard the clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk of empty wine bottles hitting the bottom of my recycling bin.
'Um, I suppose I would say that.

Lauren Sams