Bar Towel Quotes & Sayings

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them. — Daniel Handler

Sometimes the newer kids who won't even let him near them come in and set the resistance on the shoulder-pull at a weight greater than their own weight. The guru on the towel dispenser just sits there and smiles and doesn't say anything. They hunker, then, and grimace, and try to pull the bar down, but, like, lo: the overweighted shoulder-pull becomes a chin-up. Up they go, their own bodies, toward the bar they're trying to pull down. Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself. — David Foster Wallace

The iPod has changed all that because sometimes I listen to an album from beginning to end, but now I put the stuff on shuffle and have the iPod tell me what I'm listening to, especially if I'm working out. — Benicio Del Toro

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another. — Philip Roth

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe ... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps

Affirmation: What most fulfils & energizes me - mind, body, spirit - is what manifests in my life. — Jay Woodman

Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand. — Asher Peres

Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this. — Colson Whitehead

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless. — Benito Mussolini

Discrimination is alive and soaring. — Jonathan Kozol

What does the Academy Award mean? I don't think it means much of anything. — Sally Field

Today is full of promise and hope. Yesterday was either like a rainbow or a fog that has dispersed into thin air. Tomorrow is yet to come and will take care of itself. — Susan Mills Wilson

Flattery is the worst and fastest way of showing our esteem — Jonathan Swift

Blake looked around and gulped. He'd forgotten about the mess on the floor. Chamber pot shards, his
shaving kit, a towel or two ...
"I ... ah ... " It seemed to him that it was far easier
to lie for the sake of national security than it was to his
older sister.
"Is that a bar of soap stuck to the wall?" Penelope asked.
"Um ... yes, it appears to be. — Julia Quinn