From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.