Only you can set you free. ~Living Colour, "Cult of Personality"
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ~Jean Luc Godard
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O'Rourke
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ~Martin Fowler
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani
Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ~Walter Matthau
I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. ~Sarah Moore Grimke
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. ~Susan Sontag
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
In a certain sense all men are historians. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays: On History
Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Never assume the obvious is true. ~William Safire, Sleeper Spy
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. ~William Lyon Phelps
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