Straggly Evergreen Quotes

#1. I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#2. But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other.

H.G.Wells

#3. Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

Laozi

#4. Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Lawrence Durrell

#5. I see myself as a family man.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#6. Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

#7. The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra ... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

Robert Osborne