Rootstock And Vine Quotes

#1. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

W.C. Fields

#2. Change your mind about playing doctor?"
"No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute.

Rachel Vincent

#3. Writing that's not working for a living.

Robert Asprin

#4. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

Maurice Jarre

#6. We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

Emma Goldman

#7. I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

Israel Horovitz

#8. He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Edna Ferber

#10. For a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe
or hope
for anything.

Mercedes Lackey

#11. Grey is the shade of life, like shadows.

Aporva Kala

#12. Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Yanis Varoufakis

#13. The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost.

Jane Jacobs

#14. Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

Jade Jagger