Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[fljoe0]

Muhammad Ali commenting on his promoter Don King. Don King had done some time in prison earlier in his life and Don King had some pretty wild hair that stood straight up.

"His body got 10 years but his head got the electric chair"

[blunthead]

Muhammad Ali commenting on his promoter Don King. Don King had done some time in prison earlier in his life and Don King had some pretty wild hair that stood straight up.

"His body got 10 years but his head got the electric chair"

"Well, that was a cliff-dweller." --Wes Westrum, Baseball coach, about a close game

"We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles." --Wesley Bolin, Governor

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor." --Zsa Zsa Gabor, on the jury used for her assault trial

[Haunted]

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
~ James Russell Lowell

[Haunted]

"Fear only two --- the Creator and he who has no fear of Him."

--- Chassidic saying

[blunthead]

Peter DeVries vol 1...

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

[Haunted]

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." -

JORGE LUIS BORGES

[blunthead]

Peter DeVries vol 2...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

[Haunted]

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~ Albert Einstein

[blunthead]

...(Plants on the Disc, while including the categories known commonly as annuals, which were sown this year to come up later this year, biennials, sown this year to grow next year, and perennials, sown this year to grow until further notice, also included a few rare re-annuals which, because of an unusual four-dimensional twist in their genes, could be planted this year to come up last year. The vul nut vine was partiucularly exceptional in that it could flourish as many as eight years prior to its seed actually being sown. Vul nut wine was reputed to give certain drinkers an insight into the future which was, from the nut's point of view, the past. Strange but true.) --The CoLOR OF MAGIC, Terry Pratchett

[LateSunset]

"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places" - H. P. Lovecraft