Russell Hoban Riddley Walker Quotes

#1. I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic ... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

Joe Carnahan

#2. Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

Carl Webb

#3. Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.

Wiz Khalifa

#4. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. The very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Joseph J. Ellis

#6. movement is not only practised but an entirely new repertoire of movement is acquired. The experience of movement, therefore, becomes a pedagogical process.

Martin Boedicker

#7. Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world ...

Kurt Hahn

#8. the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

Kate Horsley

#9. When the dust of desires is removed, people are automatically attracted to the God just as a dustless needle is attracted to the Magnet (God).

Arun Acharya

#10. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When

Maya Angelou

#11. When you're scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it's kindly meant. Now

Marilynne Robinson

#12. The night seems more temporary than the day, especially to lovers, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Charles Eastman

#14. Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Amos Comenius

#15. The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Sinclair Lewis