Rip Van Winkle Quotes

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
― Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

“The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.”
― Jason Merkoski, Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

“Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“They kept poking him in his bony ribs, wanting to know: Who do you reckon you are? What his name was and why he kept saying that his house had disappeared and all that. It is very hard to lose a house. Why would anyone want to do that?”
― Alexis Wright, The Swan Book