Some kinds of experience

From The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke.

You learn it soon or you learn it late: There are some  kinds of experience you never share with anyone, not even with people who have their ticket punched by the same conductor you have.

From The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke.

His psychology was all wrong

Todays quotation is from The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers.

… And I waltzed right into my selling talk. But I didn´t get far. He stopped me, and then he started. Say – the things he called me. I´m not used to that sort of thing – abuse by an expert, and that´s what it was. I saw his psychology was all wrong, so I walked out on him. That´s the best way – when the old psychology ain´t working.”

From The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers.

What do the well frog know of the ocean

Todays quotation is from Behind the Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers. Another word of wisdom from Charlie Chan:

”Can you speak of the ocean to a well frog, or of ice to a summer insect?”

From Behind the Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers.

That is true knowledge

Todays quotation is said by Charlie Chan in Behind the Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers

“When you know, to know that you know, and when you do not know , to know that you don´t – that is true knowledge, as the Master said.”

From Behind the Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers

Remarkable pasts on the bargain counter

Today´s quotation is from The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers.

“Leading men and women are standardized, more or less,” said Paula Wendell, “but extras – they are different. If you talked with some of them, you’d be amazed. Brains and refinement – remarkable pasts – and on the bargain counter now at five dollars a day.”

From The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers.