Author: Craig Johnson

Cites

• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: A Serpent's Tooth (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
    FROM: King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4, (1608), Play, UK
  • IN: Any Other Name (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
    FROM: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, (1597), Play, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Another Man's Moccasins (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins..
    FROM: Old Indian Prayer, (None), Other?, NULL
  • IN: Death Without Company (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.)
    FROM: Basque Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: The Dark Horse (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: dark horse: noun 1 a: a usually little known contender (as a racehorse) that makes an unexpectedly good showing b: an entrant in a contest that is judged unlikely to succeed 2: a person who reveals little about himself or herself, esp. someone who has unexpected talents or skills
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Any Other Name (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those that would harm us.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• John Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: As the Crow Flies (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Indians survived our open intention of wiping them out, and since the tide turned they have even weathered our good intentions toward them, which can be much more deadly.
    FROM: America and Americans, (1966), Book, US
• James Weldon Johnson (1)
  • IN: Dry Bones (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Them bones, them bones gonna walk around Them bones, them bones gonna walk around Them bones, them bones gonna walk around Now hear the word of the Lord Disconnect them bones, them dry bones Disconnect them bones, them dry bones Disconnect them bones, them dry bones Now hear the word of the Lord
    FROM: "Dry Bones" / "Dem Bones" / "Dem Dry Bones", (1928), Song, US
• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Junkyard Dogs (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best.
    FROM: Love Among the Ruins, (1885), Poem, UK
• Steve Lopez (1)
  • IN: Kindness Goes Unpunished (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Philadelphia, where no good deed goes unpunished …
    FROM: The Philadelphia Inquirer January 15, 1995, (1995), Article, US
• Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de La Clos (1)
  • IN: The Cold Dish (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
    FROM: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, (1782), Novel, France
• Alfred Noyes (1)
  • IN: The Highwayman (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, when the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, when the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, a highwayman comes riding.
    FROM: The Highwayman, (1906), Poem, UK
• Louis L'amour (1)
  • IN: Wait For Signs (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
    FROM: The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War, (1976), Novel, US