Bill Compton Quotes

I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier. ~ Charlaine Harris

I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."
"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock. ~ Charlaine Harris

Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it. ~ Charlaine Harris

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church. ~ Charlaine Harris

I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it. ~ Charlaine Harris

You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all. ~ Charlaine Harris

That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough. ~ Bill Carter

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after. ~ Bill Crawford

Elegy for Smoking"

It's not the drug I miss
but all those minutes
we used to steal
outside the library,
under restaurant awnings,
out on porches, by the quiet fields.

And how kind it used to make us
when we'd laugh
and throw our heads back
and watch the dragon's breath
float from our mouths,
all ravenous and doomed.

Which is why I quit, of course,
like almost everyone,
and stay inside these days
staring at my phone,
chewing toothpicks
and figuring the bill,

while out the window,
the smokers gather
in their same old constellations,
like memories of ourselves.

Or like the remnants
of some decimated tribe,
come down out of the hills
to tell their stories
in the lightly-falling rain -

to be, for a moment, simply there
and nowhere else,
their faces glowing
each time someone lifts,
like a gift, the little flame. ~ Patrick Phillips

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights. ~ Ted Cruz

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery. ~ Bill Maher

Every day of my life I have to add another name to the list of people who p*ss me off
Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes ~ Bill Watterson

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it. ~ Bill Johnson

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play. ~ Bill Kirchen

I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to. ~ Bill Vaughan

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. ~ Bill Bryson

Most fathers and ... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. ~ Bill Cosby

Plants began the process of land colonization about 450 million years ago, accompanied of necessity by tiny mites and other organisms which they needed to break down and recycle dead organic matter on their behalf. Larger animals took a little longer to emerge, but by about 400 million years ago they were venturing out of the water, too. Popular illustrations have encouraged us to envision the first venturesome land dwellers as a kind of ambitious fish - something like the modern mudskipper, which can hop from puddle to puddle during droughts - or even as a fully formed amphibian. In fact, the first visible mobile residents on dry land were probably much more like modern woodlice, sometimes also known as pillbugs or sow bugs. These are the little bugs (crustaceans, in fact) that are commonly thrown into confusion when you upturn a rock or log. ~ Bill Bryson

I'm taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."
Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a sloppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again. ~ J.K. Rowling

I don't have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us. ~ Bill Richardson

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. ~ Bill Gates

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. ~ Bill Bowerman

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present ... Please leave your message after the tone." ~ Bill Bailey

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ... ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout. ~ Patricia Highsmith

Why can't the world ever be unfair in my favor? ~ Bill Watterson

Trout supposed that when the atmosphere became poisonous, Bill would keel over a few minutes before Trout did. He would kid Bill about that. "How's the old respiration, Bill?" he'd say, or, "Seems like you've got a touch of the old emphysema, Bill," or, "We never discussed what kind of a funeral you want, Bill. You never even told me what your religion is." And so on. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights. ~ Adrian Cronauer

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions. ~ John Boehner

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time. ~ Bill Belichick

I am available for children's parties, by the way ... ~ Bill Hicks

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ~ Bill Blass

Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. [ ... ] Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline. ~ Bill Maher

Race is one millimeter deep. Intrepidly attending the dissection of a corpse", Bryson quotes the surgeon who pulled back a minute layer of skin and said: "That's all that race is – a sliver of epidermis." As we spread across the world, some people are thought to have evolved lighter skin in order to glean vitamin D from weaker sunlight. Throughout human history, people have "de-pigmented" and "re-pigmented" to suit their environment.

Biologically, skin colour is just "a reaction to sunlight", Bryson quotes the anthropologist Nina Jablonski as saying. She adds: "And yet look how many people have been enslaved or hated or lynched or deprived of fundamental rights through history because of the colour of their skin. ~ Bill Bryson

When the bus driver gets off the bus, who shuts the door? ~ Bill Engvall

You have a rabid fan following that would buy your phone bill in hardcover and still manage to wank off to it. ~ Tiffany Reisz

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere. ~ Bill Mollison