William Least Heat-Moon quote: "When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. Wh...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardles...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five h...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do, especially in other people's minds.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

Beware thoughts that come in the night.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go sec...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I cou...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glim...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

Be careful going in search of adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to ho...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is per...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people&#...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight a...
WARREN MOON

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don'...
WARREN MOON

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I d...
WARREN MOON

Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I'v...
WARREN MOON

My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the tw...
WARREN MOON

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
WARREN MOON

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
WARREN MOON

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder a...
WARREN MOON

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've ...
WARREN MOON

When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Sup...
WARREN MOON

There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives i...
WARREN MOON

The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the fiel...
WARREN MOON

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thou...
WARREN MOON

I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celeb...
WARREN MOON

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterb...
WARREN MOON

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another respon...
WARREN MOON

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came fro...
WARREN MOON

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just lo...
WARREN MOON

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
WARREN MOON

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,...
WARREN MOON

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not ...
WARREN MOON

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
ELIZABETH MOON

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantas...
ELIZABETH MOON

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my dr...
KEITH MOON

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investmen...
AMBER MOON

Given the pay-to-play Republican style of politics that is ruling our state, the question should be ...
AMBER MOON

Its time for Gov. Perry to step up and pay attention to the educators and parents of Texas, who have...
AMBER MOON

We're unsure yet. We're still trying to figure it out, how to proceed.
AMBER MOON

The Texas Democratic Party will of course abide by the ruling of the Texas Supreme Court and give ca...
AMBER MOON

Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked tog...
KELE MOON

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
ELIZABETH MOON

We are where we want to be and doing what we want to be doing.
CASSY MOON

It allows us to see what we need to work on.
CASSY MOON

We don't have club volleyball here, so every summer [the players] condition on their own.
CASSY MOON

South Sevier thumped us pretty good [at the preseason Tournament of Champions]. We wondered why we s...
CASSY MOON

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest d...
KEITH MOON

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.
KELE MOON

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthq...
KEITH MOON

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
KEITH MOON

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even ...
ELIZABETH MOON

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
ELIZABETH MOON

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predic...
ELIZABETH MOON

It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you w...
ELIZABETH MOON

I'm a big fan of spectacles, and I live to go to large sporting events. This ranks right up there wi...
WARREN MOON

Differentiation is not a tactic. It is a way of thinking. It is a mindset that comes from listening ...
YOUNGME MOON

When I travel I begin to dream again, and the best thing is I can't tell the difference
ZOBE MOON

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.
MOON BLOODGOOD

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to wh...
ELIZABETH MOON

...he couldn't help but feel he was a little too young to consider forgoing sex for the rest of his ...
KELE MOON

Short-term commitment. Spot and PT will probably outlive me.
BETSY MOON

PT needs me for food and shelter. I'm not sure, but I believe she recognizes me by touch. I can reac...
BETSY MOON

I've really developed an interest in reptiles. I didn't know anything about them when I bought Spot,...
BETSY MOON

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
ELIZABETH MOON

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
ELIZABETH MOON

With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major...
MOON BLOODGOOD

To be voted into the Hall of Fame would be the crown jewel of my career. When I look back at what I ...
WARREN MOON

We could bend them, but we couldn't break them.
JOHN MOON

I don't want to make this a racial thing, but it is significant because it is the first. All the guy...
WARREN MOON

It wasn't like a gigantic conspiracy. But it's awfully difficult to demonstrate or prove that when y...
MARILYN MOON

They dominated, they intimidated, they played with attitude. It was wonderful to see.
WARREN MOON

I think that's what the whole 12th-man thing has done. It's made them really feel like they are part...
WARREN MOON

This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everyth...
WARREN MOON

After the season, when I talked with him, I told him he had to spend the time with Tim [offensive co...
WARREN MOON

He always had it so easy. He was so much better than anybody else in high school. Now the competitio...
WARREN MOON

Now that he's got this Collective Bargaining Agreement done for another six years, I guess he feels ...
WARREN MOON

I think all the guys that have played in the game before me as African- Americans have to share in t...
WARREN MOON

I don't want to make this a racial thing, but it's significant. I am very, very deeply honored to be...
WARREN MOON

I don't want to make this a racial thing, but I think it is significant. It shows that we have arriv...
WARREN MOON

To be inducted in my first year of eligibility is mind-boggling. Not too many guys have had that hap...
WARREN MOON

He's passionate about it, but he's not so passionate that he has to be on the sideline at the end of...
WARREN MOON

Ben is so young, and he has so much to learn. Matt has arrived. But for the future, I would rather h...
WARREN MOON

You look at me -- I played 17 years and didn't get one. That had a lot to do with how long I played....
WARREN MOON

I'm not knocking those guys, but they did get their teams here. There's a lot of players and a lot o...
WARREN MOON

But to be a parent is to live in the past-present-future all at once. It is to hug your children and...
YOUNGME MOON

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.
TIM MOON

You lying sneak."
"All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us....
DEBBIE MOON

Can I tell you that in my eyes not even God would be good enough to command you?
KELE MOON

He's one of those guys who has a tendency to sulk a little bit,
WARREN MOON

Last year, he was somewhat frustrated with not playing,
WARREN MOON

He made a big jump this summer. That's when you create leadership opportunities. Isaiah is one of th...
WARREN MOON

He's always been able to do just enough to give you hope that we're close,
WARREN MOON

It would be the story of the NFL so far this year,
WARREN MOON

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real ...
ELIZABETH MOON

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it ...
WARREN MOON

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old perso...
ELIZABETH MOON

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old an...
ELIZABETH MOON

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bi...
ELIZABETH MOON

You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will
realize that nowhere seems...
SHINJI MOON

You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you."
"We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam repli...
SHEILA MOON

We've been stung in the past and [again now] with the economic downturn, so we spend a lot more time...
JOHN MOON

I thought we dug a hole early. In the first half, our guards were in what I'd call a panic mode.
JOHN MOON

It's beyond people's belief, ... But I think it's very likely to happen.
JOHN MOON

The U.S. market has been so strong that people forget the risks, ... As an investor, you can't wait ...
JOHN MOON

I'm losing money as the Asian market goes down, but I look at it as more opportunities to buy, ... T...
JOHN MOON

We should start to see some recovery. But I'm looking for very high volatility for the next three to...
JOHN MOON

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encounter...
ELIZABETH MOON

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
ELIZABETH MOON

Working income is taxed at a higher rate than the non-working income
MUNIR MOON

With the river right down the street here and the whole idea of Sarah Orne Jewett, I thought it woul...
HARRY MOON

You?re doing very well. But you?re not there yet.
HARRY MOON

We aren't going to worry about (standings) points. If we win the game, we should be in good shape.
JAMARIO MOON

We are going to do it. There is no question we can do it. If we come out and play hard for 48 minute...
JAMARIO MOON

I don't understand none of that playoff stuff. I just go out and play and, whatever happens, happens...
JAMARIO MOON

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.
FáBIO MOON

That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f...
SHEILA MOON

I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your fle...
SHINJI MOON

Danny couldn't help it, he laughed as he shook his head. "You bit the apple."

"I bit the ...
KELE MOON

Your ass belongs to me. I’ve suffered for it. I’ve loved you forever. I deserve it,” Danny wen...
KELE MOON

Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find ...
ALLISON MOON

Let's get outta here. Or I'm gonna put my mouth on you right here. I’ve been fantasizing ‘bout t...
KELE MOON

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open t...
ELIZABETH MOON

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
ELIZABETH MOON

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
ELIZABETH MOON

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
ELIZABETH MOON

I used to not back down from a challenge.
ELIZABETH MOON

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at ...
ELIZABETH MOON

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are ...
ELIZABETH MOON

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotio...
ELIZABETH MOON

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
ELIZABETH MOON

The housing authority is in a difficult situation. We're criticized if we allow families to come bac...
LORI MOON

Our preliminary reports make us believe that it makes more sense to demolish at this time.
LORI MOON

They passed legislation in 2003 providing that most of the cost of the drug benefit would be borne b...
MARILYN MOON

One of the ironies is that most of the other countries spend considerably less than we do on health ...
MARILYN MOON

We'll make adjustments. We always do.
MARILYN MOON

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.
MARILYN MOON

If these people are going out for a long-term evacuation, they don't want to be in big gymnasiums, ....
PETER MOON

It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were.
CHRISSY MOON

You can carry your baby and not just use the car seat all the time. There are lots of things you can...
RACHEL MOON

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell ...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally l...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is s...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character....
SHERI MOON ZOMBIE

I really fell in love with the art of making clothes when I was dancing on tour. Creating my stage i...
SHERI MOON ZOMBIE

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely e...
SUN MYUNG MOON

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Ad...
SUN MYUNG MOON

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight lin...
SUN MYUNG MOON

So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Churc...
SUN MYUNG MOON

Gag me with a spoon!
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I actually started making tank tops under the name Kitty Moon many, many years ago, but I just didn&...
SHERI MOON ZOMBIE

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked ...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

Salem is such a cool little town that's very touristy. It's fun to walk around all the shops...
SHERI MOON ZOMBIE

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequ...
MOON-KIE JUNG

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? F...
SUN MYUNG MOON

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, ...
SUN MYUNG MOON

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences ...
SOLEIL MOON FRYE

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus t...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into...
SUN MYUNG MOON

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my ow...
SUN MYUNG MOON

When you bow to True Parents' picture and display the Unification Church flag, Satan will have to go...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
SOLEIL MOON FRYE

If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul...
GARY W. MOON

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of fee...
SUN MYUNG MOON

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once peop...
SUN MYUNG MOON

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
SUN MYUNG MOON

Nothing can shock me.
SHERI MOON ZOMBIE

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.
SUN MYUNG MOON

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggl...
BAN KI-MOON

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
SUN MYUNG MOON

Sirius is the Hidden God or "the sun behind the sun". As the moon reflects the sun, so does the sun ...
PRESTON NICHOLS AND PETER MOON

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up ...
STACEY LEE, OUTRUN THE MOON

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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