Traveling Salesman Quotes

#1. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#2. I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

Ian Frazier

#3. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

#4. Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Carey Williams

#5. I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Honore De Balzac

#7. It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening.
("Death of a Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#8. Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

Jerry Coleman

#9. One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.

Fannie Hurst

#10. He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#11. I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

Betty White

#12. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!

Iyanla Vanzant

#13. America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

Jim Ratcliffe

#14. When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Andy Stanley

#15. The idea of the original had no place.

Sherry Turkle

#16. All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Robert Henri

#17. Life is a journey. We hear it often. Do we care about the intermediate destinations? No, we are sleeping and dreaming. If this is true, how can we pursue life as our journey?

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#18. A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Suzanne Vega

#19. Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Napoleon Hill

#20. The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

Robert Menzies

#21. You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.

Lorenzo Scupoli

#22. Save a life, and your path will always have light.

James Patterson

#23. There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

David Souter

#24. And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ...

William Shakespeare

#25. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.

Douglas Preston

#26. It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud

Anne Frank

#27. The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Dalai Lama