Arboretum Austin Quotes & Sayings

I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker. — James O'Barr

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. — Nora Roberts

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal. — Iris Murdoch

The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women. — Paul G. Quinnett

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work. — Howard Graham Buffett

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end. — Lois Greiman

Our final takoyaki surprise happened at Mister Donut. — Matthew Amster-Burton

It's the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history. — Bill Gates