Amos Terrell > Amos's Quotes

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

“Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”
“I’m currently out of the country, Mr. Hooks. Why don’t you tell me about the nature of the problem? Mind you, I don’t take infidelity cases anymore.”
“No, it’s not that type of case. This is about the late Judge Russell Hastings. He was an appellate judge with the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee who unfortunately was murdered about a year ago.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things.”
― Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had gone mad. I had - for my sins, I suppose - to go through the ordeal of looking into it myself. No eloquence could have been so withering to one's belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity. He struggled with himself, too. I saw it, - I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“While Calvin is in the classroom

TEACHER:
Yes, Calvin?

CALVIN:

Miss Wormwood, I'm a fierce advocate of the separation of church and state.

CALVIN:

Nevertheless, I feel the need for spiritual guidance and comfort as I face the day's struggles.

CALVIN:

So I was wondering if I could strip down,
smear myself withg paste,
and set fire to this little effigy of you
in a non-denominational sort of way.

CALVIN (After being sent to the Principal's office):

Boy, what a touchy subject!”
― Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed

“And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Three Daughters of Madame Liang

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom