Quote by Owen Wister Download Open image ““Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.”” — Owen Wister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you experience it. Or because there was someone visiting the court who had never gotten a chance to see the machine in action. Another one of those things that makes you think, well, okay, the end of… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share
“If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground.” — Taylor Anderson Copy Share Image
“was a little different doing this sideways, but I discovered it wasn’t that hard. When I began to lose the grip with my legs,… — Michelle Hughes Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the crotch of my pants. “There's only one pole that counts and I've got it right here.” — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
“Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Music is a light! It can reach anywhere and it can touch anything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I thought if I created some distance, maybe I wouldn't want you to touch me so badly. Maybe I could come to work today… — Mari Carr Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
