33179 Quotes & Sayings

Laziness is the mother of all evils. — Sophocles

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm — Winston Churchill

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers. — Justin Long

Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity. — Jerrod Carmichael

And I have the personal promise of the Governor that never again will anybody be sent to the Sexual Offenders' Wing of the Adult Correctional Institution for telling a joke! — Kurt Vonnegut

Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds). — Shaquille O'Neal

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug. — Sade Adu

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass! — Israelmore Ayivor

APPENDIX 1 DICKENS AND CRUIKSHANK — Charles Dickens

It's the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what's beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon. — Fennel Hudson

You might think that, by way of us all being people, we might see something of ourselves in the lives of our clients. Some family-based practice, for example, that called to mind our own. We did not. We saw precious little to remind us of humanity in the private lives of our clients. There are no such links in prostitution. The closest a prostitute will get to understanding anything of her client's family life is by noticing a baby seat in the back of his car or feeling the cold metal of his wedding ring pressed against the inner walls of her vagina. — Rachel Moran

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive. — Anna Maria Chavez

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else. — Mark Forsyth