"You've got forever; and somehow you can't do……" — Jim Thompson
"You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators."
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13 Quotes by Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson has 13 quotes on this site.
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A weed is a plant out of place.
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Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh…
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There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
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I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way…
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If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
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We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks…
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I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her,…
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There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot –…
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What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
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I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine.…
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If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve…
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I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved…
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More Alligators Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and…
— Buddy Hackett
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
— Bob Hope
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting…
— George Foreman
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It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
— Ronald Reagan
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Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie…
— Charlie Daniels
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It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my…
— Ric Flair
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
— Homer
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
— Homer
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The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
— Mike Pence
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First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's…
— Unknown Author
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It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised…
— Kelly Brook
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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely…
— S.A. Bodeen
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