Sissy Hankshaw Quotes

#1. Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.

Tom Robbins

#2. Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw

Tom Robbins

#3. The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

William Morris

#4. It's really cool I get to be part of this 'Jurassic Park' universe.

Ty Simpkins

#5. Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.

Orna Ross

#6. Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent to write fiction. What he did know was that he could not help spending a large part of every day writing fiction. To him, writing was like breathing.

Haruki Murakami

#7. A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

Herman Wouk

#8. Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

Alain De Botton

#9. She's shaking like a shitting dog," Riley says.

I look up at her and her hands that hang awkwardly at her sides and see her fingers trembling. "Yeah," I agree, "she is."

"She'll be shaking like a shitting dog when I'm done wither her," he says...

Beckie Stevenson

#10. I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

K.d. Lang

#11. It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.

William Gurnall

#12. Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.

Lauren Gilley

#13. When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.

Meher Baba

#14. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.

Ian McEwan

#15. In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Warren Buffett

#16. More often than not it's the mascara and lipstick combination that tips the balance. These military wives could do with some lessons. Seriously. Why would you leave the house looking like a monkey had a party on your face?

Richard House