Ricochet River Book Quotes

#1. I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles De Lint

#2. The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It's up to you.

Billy Bishop

#3. Thus Esau despised his birthright. In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance

Ellen G. White

#4. But the moments the seconds the minutes the hours the days and years become one big mistake, one extraordinary opportunity slipped right through our fingers because we couldn't decide, we couldn't understand, we needed more time, we didn't know what to do.
We don't even know what we have done.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Anatole France

#6. Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow.

Charles Krauthammer

#7. It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

Terry Gilliam

#8. I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

Jeff Goldblum

#9. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.

Deyth Banger

#10. You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

Andy Rooney

#11. I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

James McAvoy

#12. It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

Woody Allen

#13. When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.

William Butler Yeats