Top 100 Winslow Quotes
#1. Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world."
"I would rather Winslow do it.
Julie Garwood
#2. The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
Alan Cheuse
#3. I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
Chuck Hogan
#4. You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison.
Ken Rosenthal
#6. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.
Wynton Marsalis
#7. I like a woman with meat on her bones."
She laughed. "My hips express their deepest appreciation, Major Winslow.
Laura Taylor
#8. Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
G.S. Jennsen
#9. Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]
Randy Alcorn
#10. Massachusetts, like Queen Elizabeth, encouraged salt making through the granting of monopolies to those who showed the skill to produce salt cheaply. The colony granted Samuel Winslow a ten-year monopoly to employ his ideas on salt producing, which is considered the first patent issued in America.
Mark Kurlansky
#11. Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.
Jackson Browne
#12. Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
Tori Amos
#13. I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah
Kate Carlisle
#14. Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of the town's happiness, always had a warm fire crackling on the hearth and was known for its good cider and company.
Clara Diane Thompson
#15. My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!
Caroline Sunshine
#16. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head," Winslow said. "Just for a moment. Then you'd know what all I can't find how to say.
Alan Heathcock
#18. It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Winslow Homer
#20. My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.
Don Winslow
#21. The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#22. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.
Don Winslow
#23. We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
Don Winslow
#24. Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought.
Jacqueline Winslow
#25. The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.
Don Winslow
#26. There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.
Charles-Edward A. Winslow
#27. prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So
Don Winslow
#28. You need the money, the cash flow, but it's more than that, admit it. You love the game. The thrill, the taking off the bad guys, even the danger, the idea that you might get caught.
Don Winslow
#29. Her eyes fall on Alejandro's lips, wanting, once again, to know how they would feel on her. She squirms at the thought.
Vivian Winslow
#30. This is not a war on drugs. This is a war on the poor. This is a war on the poor and the powerless, the voiceless and the invisible,
Don Winslow
#31. Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.
Don Winslow
#32. I think your eyes might be the exact same color as mine," she said wonderingly.
"What fine gray-eyed babies we shall have," he said, before he thought the better of it.
Julia Quinn
#33. I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.
Winslow Homer
#34. Your strengths are your weaknesses.
The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.
Don Winslow
#35. Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with.
And then don't do it.
Don Winslow
#36. I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
Don Winslow
#38. I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.
Don Winslow
#39. Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.
Octavius Winslow
#40. Deliver my soul from the sword; my love from the power of the dog. Psalms 22:20
Don Winslow
#41. Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.
Michael Winslow
#42. If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
Michael Winslow
#43. I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.
Don Winslow
#44. The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.
Winslow Homer
#45. I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.
Michael Winslow
#46. There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
Don Winslow
#47. Luis hopes for heaven.
Keller fears hell.
Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.
Don Winslow
#48. The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.
Don Winslow
#49. I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#50. I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
Winslow Homer
#51. The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
Michael Winslow
#52. When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.
Don Winslow
#53. Mateo runs up and Pablo hugs him. It's amazing, he thinks, that he never gets tired of that sensation.
Don Winslow
#54. Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist.
Don Winslow
#55. I'm not -
Lady Macbeth
Lucrezia Borgia
Catherine the Great. I am
- a woman doing what she has to do. I am
- the woman you made me.
Elena is at war.
Don Winslow
#56. Things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#57. I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.
Don Winslow
#58. A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
Don Winslow
#59. you do not avenge a murder by killing - you avenge it by living.
Don Winslow
#60. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
Octavius Winslow
#61. And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#62. When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
Winslow Homer
#63. How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
Don Winslow
#64. Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.
Don Winslow
#65. The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.
Octavius Winslow
#66. Over the past seven years she had managed to push his memory so far back in her mind that he could've been a figment of her imagination.
Vivian Winslow
#67. I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
Don Winslow
#68. guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.
Don Winslow
#69. Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.
Don Winslow
#70. The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
Don Winslow
#72. The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.
Winslow Homer
#73. Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ...
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#74. I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
Don Winslow
#75. Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.
Don Winslow
#76. Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
Don Winslow
#77. Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.
Octavius Winslow
#78. Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.
Don Winslow
#79. There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. - Carlos Santana "Maria Maria
Don Winslow
#80. If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.
Don Winslow
#81. I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
Don Winslow
#82. You'll marry the earl and carry on with the nephew on the side."
"Grandmother!
Julia Quinn
#83. Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God.
Don Winslow
#84. Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#85. Grande is Mexico's harshest and most secure prison, and
Don Winslow
#86. Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!
Octavius Winslow
#87. Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
Don Winslow
#88. Beware the hospitality of the sociopath.
Don Winslow
#89. And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you're safe.
Don Winslow
#90. he's not sure how safe this meeting is going to be. And
Don Winslow
#91. To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description ...
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#92. The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain't never gonna run out of is white trash.
Don Winslow
#93. Love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#94. So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
Don Winslow
#95. The banquet is ready, and the minstrels are tuning their harps to celebrate the return from your wanderings to your Father's heart and home, with the gladness of feasting, and with the voice of thanksgiving and of melody.
Octavius Winslow
#96. Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.
Don Winslow
#97. Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#98. Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.
Shannon Winslow
#99. We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.
Don Winslow
#100. Annabel stared at the door, then turned to Sebastian, feeling quite dazed. "I think my grandmother may have just given me permission to ruin myself."
"I'll do all the ruining tonight," he said with a grin. "If you don't mind.
Julia Quinn
