Quotes About Eugene

On the communist regime of Ceau?escu) Romania, said Eugene, was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.

Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

We need more coaches like Eugene Bareman in this sport.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.

Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning than putting together.

it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!

DONKEYMAN: S'pose there's a gel mixed up in it someplace, ain't there? SMITTY: What makes you think so? DONKEYMAN: Always is when a man lets music bother 'im. ["The Moon of the Caribees"]

active phase cannot be reliably defined until 6 cm of dilation.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I refer to all you write about Cocteau, [Eugene] Jolas & Goethe—with the changefulness of tone, the mockery of the "pomp" in the next paragraph.)

So we have great wars sometimes, and I put up Dumas' flag, or Soulié's, or Eugène Sue's (yet he was properly possessed by the 'Mystères de Paris') and carry it till my arms ache.

I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS.

The great Irish historiographer, Eugene O'Curry, says: "The De Danann were a people remarkable for their knowledge of the domestic, if not the higher, arts of civilized life

The most hardened hearts find a solace in the thought that their crimes are justifiable.

are still men, and not keyboards of pianos over which the hands of Nature may play at their own sweet will." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters from the Underworld

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.

Pessimism's propositions have all the gravitas of a bad joke.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Eliza was better tuned to cosmic vibrations. With a full, if inexact, sense of what portended, she gave to Luck's Lad the title of Eugene, a name which, beautifully, means wellborn, but which, as anyone will be able to testify, does not mean, has never meant, well-bred.