Baschi Quick Quotes & Sayings

One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique ... , the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble. — S.J Perelman

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances. — Darryl Anka

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs. — Tori Amos

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The hour [ ... ] can be anywhere between three and six o'clock in the afternoon. The general rule is that the earlier tea is served, the lighter the refreshments. At three, tea is usually a snack
dainty finger sandwiches, petits fours, fresh strawberrries; at six, it can be a meal
or "high" tea
with sausage rolls, salads, and trifle. — Angela Hynes

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them. — Harry Stack Sullivan

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies. — William Gilmore Simms

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am. — Olivier Theyskens

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse. — Mike Pence

You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do. — China Mieville

When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world. — Dada Bhagwan

When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour. — Steven Erikson