Sloat Quotes

#1. Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.

Philip K. Dick

#2. You can learn a lot about a person by where they are from and where they have chosen to be."

"You'll never know what could have been if it never was.

Sarah Sloat

#3. God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.

S. Jane Sloat

#4. For a moment the radio wavered between stations
and I was so busy
making myself marvelous.

S. Jane Sloat

#5. I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it.

S. Jane Sloat

#6. A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

May Sarton

#7. One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.

William Maxwell

#8. As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

Apolo Ohno

#9. The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

Anthony Giddens

#10. Bad people ... are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Aristotle.

#11. My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

S. Jane Sloat

#12. I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go back and look at photographs and look at video to remind myself of something or for personal information. But I never review from that.

Robin Givhan