The Busted Flush Quotes

#1. It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.

John D. MacDonald

#2. Settled for a blooming redhead from Waco, Takes-us, name of Molly Bea Archer, carefully cut her out of the pack and trundled her, tipsy and willing, back to the Busted Flush.

John D. MacDonald

#3. Such is the passing that you must leave,
All men must die, and it is vain to grieve.

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#4. Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

Cassandra Clare

#5. We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

Rod McKuen

#6. We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Thomas Keller

#7. We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#8. Beauty is so rare a th
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card
- from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]

Jack Spicer

#9. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

#10. A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

Srikumar Rao

#12. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Paul Gibbons

#13. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law

John D. MacDonald

#14. I said, in my new loud middle-aged-Jewish-woman voice.

Jesse Andrews

#15. So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed.

Margot Lee Shetterly