The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.
Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
“I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'”
Jerry Seinfield
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into 'Best of Queen' albums.
~ Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
Anne Lamott
@Editusrex,
You who set our beloved land—storm-tossed, shattered—
straight on course. Now again, good helmsman,
steer us through the storm!
Oedipus Rex.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
― James Joyce
“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce
"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us. In joy we face the storm and defy it."
Amelia Barr
“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.”
Brendan Behan
"A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent."
Simone de Beauvoir
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
(Dean Wormer's advice to a young college student in the movie, "Animal House.")
Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
"You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."
John Keats
“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
(except zombies) - edgarblythe
@edgarblythe,
Goethe uses a strikingly similar expression in
Der Erl Koenig.
“If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.”
― Isaac Asimov
@edgarblythe,
"Politics is like sausages: you don't want to know how it is done."
Anon. Bismark maybe.
@wandeljw,
Denying reality and providing cover for war criminals and terrorists is no way to go through life, JW.
(My advice to a middle aged man in real life America)
"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
~Douglas Adams
