Roustabout Quotes

#1. The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. "Man-eater", I'd say. "Gold digger, roustabout, louse".
"Who are you talking about?" my neighbors would ask. "What social climber? Where?

David Sedaris

#2. Hunger is good discipline.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

Pete Seeger

#4. And what I also couldn't take anymore was this look of disgust on Lyric's face as she stared at me like this was all my fault. She seemed repulsed at the possibility of Tim being my father.

Jessica N. Watkins

#5. Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity with a lovesick mermaid who cries out pieces of sea glass. Are you going to eat that bacon?

Sarah Ockler

#6. The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.

Melissa McCarthy

#7. And once by God, I was a Marine!

Lee Marvin

#8. The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice.

Glenn Greenwald

#9. Eventually we all run out of road.

Terence Winter

#10. My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Tiffani Thiessen

#11. To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

H.L. Stephens

#12. Andy and Terry went into the kitchen to serve out the Neapolitan (which we called van-choc-straw . . . funny how it all

Stephen King

#13. I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Burton Raffel

#14. If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Ted Turner

#15. Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Richard Paul Evans

#16. How could I possibly learn to survive in such a pagan place, where trams were streetcars, vans and lorries were trucks, pavements were sidewalks, jumpers were sweaters, petrol was gasoline, aluminium was aluminum, sweets were candy, a full stop was a period, and cheerio was goodbye?

Alan Bradley