Shaggy Man Quotes

#1. It's the finest country in all the world, even if it is a fairyland, and I'm happy every minute I live in it, said the Shaggy Man.

L. Frank Baum

#2. Why didn't the Eskimo keep it?" she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. "He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him." "Wasn't he sorry then?" she inquired. "He didn't say," replied the shaggy man,

L. Frank Baum

#3. I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

Gregory David Roberts

#4. Reddish-brown hair worn shaggy, as if he simply didn't care about style. Which was baffling. Really, what sort of educated man didn't care about style?

Kelly Bowen

#5. Then I'd tell him how fond I am of basketball, which isn't a total lie because I have a real appreciation for boys in shorts.

E. Van Lowe

#6. He's as beautiful as his voice sounds. Blonde shaggy curls with short sides. Scruff; oh dear leprechaun I'm a sucker for scruff on a man.

A.M. Willard

#7. It seems to me the Land of Oz is a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture innocent people.

L. Frank Baum

#8. What are you, the boogey man?"

Strike three- her joke sucked. His eyes darkened, and he moved so close his shaggy bangs tickled her brow. She swallowed hard, staring up into his dangerously arctic eyes, drowning in the darkness reflected behind them.

"Yeah. Somethin' like that.

Amy Cook

#9. I was playing a new part in a new play: the messed-up adult child coming home in a truly pitiful state in the back of her parents' luxury sedan.
It was a glorious suburban homecoming.

Inna Swinton

#10. I bet your mom would let me.
-Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

Mo Willems

#11. The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

John Allen Paulos

#12. I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

Twyla Tharp

#13. I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Pat Metheny

#14. Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#15. Mysteries are fine things, but the written word should be preserved, intact, and free of extraneous error.

Sandra Staas

#16. Is there a reason why you are still in my heart? Is there a reason why you are still trying to get me to fall for you?

Matt Trevitz

#17. You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#19. Stories
individual stories, family stories, national stories
are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Yann Martel