“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
― Steve Martin
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenso
“It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.”
― Maurice Sendak, The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain
@edgarblythe,
That is a fantastic one Edgar. Thanks for bringing it to my attention !
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
— Franz Kafka
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
— Lewis Carroll
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.” –Steven Wright
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
― Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám
“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson
