Top 30 Van Winkle Quotes
#1. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.
Jason Merkoski
#2. Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#3. By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.
Alex Kurtzman
#4. I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.
Salman Rushdie
#5. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.
Bowie Kuhn
#6. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.
Jaffe Cohen
#7. Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
Clint Van Winkle
#8. War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can't feel it, you weren't paying attention. And if you weren't paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
Clint Van Winkle
#9. This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real
and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.
Jasper Fforde
#10. We are all disabled, broken parts, lost individuals, trying to find our way. Truth is what you know, here and happening now. There is only love and love is the bravest character of all.
Jacqueline Cioffa
#11. I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else's freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.
Clint Van Winkle
#12. If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.
Christian Scott
#13. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
#14. I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
Richard P. Feynman
#15. No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.
Clint Van Winkle
#17. You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle
Rick Pitino
#19. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
Jeff Bezos
#20. Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.
Clint Van Winkle
#21. Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war - peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.
Clint Van Winkle
#23. Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
Andrew Jackson
#25. I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.
Clint Van Winkle
#26. I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me
Clint Van Winkle
#27. Feed the beast, ladies, and it'll come to you every time it's hungry. Make your man feel like he's the biggest, baddest motherfucker on earth, inside and outside of the bedroom, and he'll adore you
S.L. Jennings
#28. The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.
Seth Adam Smith
#29. I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.
Clint Van Winkle
#30. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
David Brooks
