The October Country Quotes

#1. We are gathered here at the end of what Bradbury called the October Country: a state of mind as much as it is a time. All the harvests are in, the frost is on the ground, there's mist in the crisp night air and it's time to tell ghost stories.

Neil Gaiman

#2. In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Virchand Gandhi

#3. I say there is no modern evil which cannot be justified by these ancient texts; and there is nowhere in Christendom a clergy which cannot be persuaded to cite them at the demand of ruling classes.

Upton Sinclair

#4. I hated school, but I love work.

Simon Cowell

#5. Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.

Nelson DeMille

#6. Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.

Ray Berwick

#7. Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled. "You kiss me."
I placed my hand on the back of his neck. I pulled him toward me. And kissed him. I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And I kissed him. And he kept kissing me back.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#9. I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. She's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.

Naomi Novik

#12. I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having 'no edge' being simple and worse, harmless.

Michael Cunningham

#13. Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#14. I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

Grant Achatz

#15. This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#16. What is a big city girl like you doing out in the middle of nowhere with a country boy like me on a Tuesday night in October?"
"Enjoying life...

Lee DeBourg

#17. If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

Gail Sheehy

#18. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

Patricia Moyes

#19. Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#20. Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Golda Meir

#21. Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

Vance Havner