Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that ‘brainy’ people can be.
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don’t want a girl who’s too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I’m saying.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
I’m 27. I feel like I get it. I’m OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I’m brainy, some days I’m funny, some days I’m sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
You can’t be taught to be brainy. You’ve either got it or you don’t.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.
Let’s pick it up, the man behind her said. How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?Just three, the girl panted.Gonna have to restock.Right. I’ll just… head down… to the convenience store, and- she didn’t finish, the strain too much.
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert’s seventh symphony. And I’ve rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.
Running ain’t no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.
You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I’d be shooting myself in the head if I were you.
Meg, don’t you think you’d make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said.They’re lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember? He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There is something better than Notre-Dame.
Should I pull on a shirt? he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. No. He’d be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn’t going to tell him that part. You’re fine.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
Yeah. Floyd is his batman.His what?Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant.You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don’t make you money than anybody I know.
A man once said, ‘All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.’ Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
Rhett: If you’ve made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.
Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. Lord Varys, he said from the saddle, sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy. How odd. I think quite the same of you.
What should I say? ‘Well, the murder was a little upsetting, and the fire did worry me a bit. I was nearly date-raped and my ex best friend is crazy. But, hey, at least I’m making an A in History’?
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
No, said Luis, You can’t date the Lord of the Night Court.Well, I’m not, he dumped me.You can’t get dumped by the lord of the night court.Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, precautions usually equals voluntary shock therapy.
What’s the point of being a grown-up if you don’t get to be immature?
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though.
My dearest girl,’ said the vampire finally, examining Lord Maccon with an exhausted but appreciative eye, ‘such a banquet. Never been one to favor werewolves myself, but he is very well equipped, now, is he not?’Miss Tarabotti gave him an arch look. ‘My goodies,’ she warned.Humans,’ chuckled the vampire, ‘so possessive.
When did you become a woman?-HatoriHow dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times…-YukiGASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean… fan club girlsNO! He’s my doctor…Yuki
Heifer.”“Rich man’s whore!”“At least mine can cook the food he eats. And replaces it, too.”“Now see, Dee-Ann Smith. That was just mean!