Walk Among Tombstones Quotes

#1. And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you've pulled. It don't matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

S.B. Redd

#2. Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.

Sarah Colliver

#3. Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

James Blish

#4. One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.

Haruki Murakami

#6. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

George Carlin

#7. My sort of stability as a character - it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf - k. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.

Robert Plant

#8. SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

Earl Sweatshirt

#9. To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

Nostradamus

#10. I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Deb Caletti

#11. Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#12. Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

Bob McNair

#13. Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

Dan Simmons

#14. Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Thomas Szasz