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Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If
~ Don Winslow
Before we pitch our tent on the grassy knoll," Lou says, "let's consider the possibility that this wasn't an inside job.
~ Don Winslow
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
~ Donal Logue
Fragments are the only forms I trust.
~ Donald Barthelme
The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
~ Donald Barthelme
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
~ Donald Berwick
Why, Wally," he said. "Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it's all the truth.
~ Donald E. Westlake
wish you would." "Right. When I had the emerald again, I was in a cell. I guess they were afraid the rest of the guys might try to spring me right away, 'cause they hid me out in a precinct on the Upper West Side for the first
~ Donald E. Westlake
Oh, I know you like being a rogue," she assured me. "What the English call a chancer. You're unfaithful to the entire world, so why are you faithful to your wife?
~ Donald E. Westlake
Island we'd lost our Internet access to insolvency months ago.
~ Donald E. Westlake
lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Do you know just how horrible New Brunswick, New Jersey is?" She smiled faintly, as she shook her head. "No, I don't." "You're lucky. Those who do have experience of New Brunswick, New Jersey are scarred for life.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The office containing these two men was of such hushed opulence that it seemed as though their words were borne to one another on small plush pillows.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.
~ Donald Finkel
When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.
~ Donald G. Bloesch
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
~ Donald Hall
The girl whispered, "I'm dying, aren't I?" "I should hope so," I said. "If not, we'll have to send my associate back to marksmanship school.
~ Donald Hamilton
When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Encyclopedia wished there were a yoga exercise Caswell could do with his mouth—such as shut it.
~ Donald J. Sobol
donald justice: i often wonder about the others, where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?
~ Donald Justice
Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
~ Pythagoras
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
~ Stephen Greenblatt
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~ Francis Bacon