“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”

— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

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American writer 1902–1968

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.”

Catherine Coulter (1942) American romance novelist

Source: Tail Spin

“Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…”

Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian

Laugh Factory (2012); as quoted in "Daniel Tosh apologises for rape joke as fellow comedians defend topic" https://www.theguardian.com/culture/us-news-blog/2012/jul/11/daniel-tosh-apologises-rape-joke, Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian, 11, Jul 2012

“Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Whether 't was rightfully said, Live Concealed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The world is the same jungle all over, but New York is its purest distillation. What is useful elsewhere is vital in the big city. You see four guys bunched on a corner waiting for you, you either run like hell in the opposite direction without hesitation, or you keep on walking without slowing down or speeding up or breaking stride. You look ahead with studied neutrality, you check their faces, you look away, like you're saying, Is that all you got?
Truth is, it's smarter to run. The best fight is the one you don't have. But I have never claimed to be smart. Just obstinate, and occasionally bad-tempered. Some guys kick cats. I keep walking.”

Lee Child book Gone Tomorrow

Source: Gone Tomorrow (2009), Ch. 10.

“One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.”

Tony Snow (1955–2008) American White House Press Secretary

Quoted in Al Kamen, "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe," http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601551.html washingtonpost.com (2006-07-06).