Alvester Underwood Quotes & Sayings

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. — Robert Crumb

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck. — George Carlin

You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God. — Brandon Sanderson

Hobo Dinners 1 lb. hamburger 1 onion, sliced 4 medium potatoes, cubed 1 (15.25 oz.) can of corn (or package of frozen corn) Salt and pepper to taste Heavy duty aluminum foil - 4 pieces 18" x 24 — Bonnie Scott

Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction. — Bertrand Russell

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real. — Derek Landy

You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it's not that thing's fault. — Megan Hart

Where do we have it? Do we do the whole nine yards or shorten the ceremony? Do we try to make it religious or keep it nondenominational? Do you have a best man or do you ask Annie to stand with you? Do we involve our families, make one of them travel? Does Chester get to put a corsage on his shovel? If we have to go to Texas, can I put Barnum in a bow tie and have him be the bouncer for the reception? — Abigail Roux

And there is nothing wastes so rapidly as liberality, for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else - in avoiding poverty - rapacious and hated. And a leader should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both. Therefore it is wiser to have a reputation for austerity which brings reproach without hatred, than to be compelled through seeking a reputation for liberality to incur a name for rapacity which begets reproach with hatred. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What is the "eternal life" that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. "This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (Jn 17:3). — J.I. Packer

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt

The key to your universe is that you can choose. — Frederick Carl Frieseke

Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him. — Voltaire

They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame. — Blaise Pascal