Astutitrib Quotes & Sayings

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you. — Joan Rivers

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else. — Ken Livingstone

Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.
No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it.
When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.
You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes. — Meg Rosoff

It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off! — Carrie Vaughn

It was a musty sweet smell. "Is this plague city? — Thaddeus Nowak

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history — Ervand Abrahamian

If you have a pulse, you have a purpose! — Rich Wilkerson Jr.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that day dreams with your eyes wide open are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it. — L. Frank Baum

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. — Frank Zappa

He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast. — Tammara Webber

If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness. — Christopher Paolini

Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this ... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'! — SZA

It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor. — Samuel Adams