Bohannan Quotes & Sayings

The sexual act - thinking about the sexual act, the telling about the sexual act, after the sexual act, is so much more important than the actual sexual act - just in time. It's like of the whole sexual act, you probably spend 95% of the time thinking about it, talking about it afterwards. The actually sexual act, especially when you're 17, is minutes. — Will Gluck

I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before. — Corey Koskie

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. — Richard G. Scott

It's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition. — Laura Bohannan

[Richard Bedford Bennett] was the richest Prime Minister and the only millionaire to hold office before Pierre Trudeau. His money obviously colored his thinking
colored it true blue
but he did not consider it a political drawback. No leader, he said, could serve the public properly if he was constantly looking over his shoulder at the shadow of debts. This theory is now widely accepted in the United States where it has become practically impossible for a non-millionaire to run for high office without selling pieces of himself like a prize-fighter. Yet the public still suspects a self-made millionaire like Lyndon Johnson while revering the much-richer John F. Kennedy, who got it all from his father. — Gordon Donaldson

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation. — Laura Bohannan

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity. — Laura Bohannan

I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments. — Thomas Hardy

I've been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I'm still waiting for it to impress me. — Jessica Conoley

Envoi
we had no voice
we had no name
we had no choice
we had one face
one face the same
we took the blame
it was no fair
but now w're here
we're all here too
the same as you
and now we follow
you, we find you
now, we call
to you to you
too wit too woo
too wit too woo
too woo
(The Maids sprout feathers, and fly away as owls.) — Margaret Atwood

The distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice. — Laura Bohannan