“Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.”
Source: The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls 50
American writer and journalist 1960Related quotes

21 November 2015 speech in Birmingham Alabama, then next-day reply to George Stephanopoulos, according to 22 November 2015 PolitiFact article https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/
2010s, 2015

Appearance on Thicke of the Night (28 April 1984).

“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.”
Meeting Troubles half-way, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Source: After the Funeral (1953)
Context: There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

“We were watching Barrons.
Why were you watching Barrons?
Barrons needs watching.”
Source: Bloodfever
[Haggard, Ted, Letters from Home, Regal Books, March 2003, p. 14, ISBN 0830730583]
“Their words were spoken to the breezes nor swayed appointed fate.”
Dicta dabant ventis nec debita fata movebant.
Source: Argonautica, Book V, Line 21
“We were born to run; we were bornwe run.”
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen