Trading Manny Quotes

#1. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)

Jim Gullo

#2. What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Morley Safer

#3. If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Frank Chodorov

#4. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they walk off, sticky all over with fire.

Laura Kasischke

#6. I'm a restaurant junkie.

Amy Carlson

#7. There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge from a black hole."
~"Understanding Space & Time

Alastair Reynolds

#8. and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Anne Lamott

#9. (cleaning out a closet that's been staring at you for months can feel just about as good, brain-wise, as getting a promotion that you've worked for).

Scott G. Halford