Beaney Littlejohn Quotes & Sayings

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.' — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Would you like to try some cocaine?" Freud offered, "I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely."
"No thanks," God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance. — Dylan Callens

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. — Arthur C. Clarke

May whatever God you believe in have mercy on your soul — Q.J.S. Adiwarna

God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright. — Richard Hooker

Necessity is a mother. — David Carr

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out. — Peter S. Beagle

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother. — Lou Reed

Tell you what," I said, my eyebrows rising. "You can drive me home if we keep to one topic on the way."
"Your father?" he guessed, and I nodded. I was getting used to this deal-with-a-demon business. — Kim Harrison