Arashiyama Monkey Quotes & Sayings

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin. — John Irving

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores! — Val Venis

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The shock of the real. — Edward Abbey

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life. — Robert Musil

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. — Jeff Daniels

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. — Colman McCarthy

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it. p 242 — George Bernard Shaw

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. — Haruki Murakami

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain

In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get. — Molly Ivins

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core. — Herbert A. Simon

In the realm between life and death, time, as we know it, does not exist. — Brunonia Barry

It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up. — M. King Hubbert