Best 19 quotes of K. Martin Beckner on MyQuotes

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes.

Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.

I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won't hurt like it did anymore, and if you don't look at it, sometimes you can almost forget it's there.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a neat row at the local Promise Land Cemetery was not an argument in her defense.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

There aren't many kids today as good as you are. Kids today are selfish; they don't think of others. They're too busy listening to devil music on their eight-track players to think of anyone else.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.