Asslings Quotes & Sayings

Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes. — Kevin D. Patterson

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. — Augusten Burroughs

Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not. — Mario Bunge

I want to win a gold medal in London. — Kerri Walsh

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat — Howard Zinn

Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled? — Francis Quarles

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.' — Richard Louv

It was the kind of snow that didn't amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The technical term for that level, he decided, was an "annoyance" of snow. — Cassandra Clare

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better — Richard Branson

The passengers slid out as if from a torn package. — Markus Zusak

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight. — Jeffrey Bernard

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear — J. Joseph Wright