Bokononism Standard Quotes & Sayings

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields

Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin

Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up ... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed. — Edward St. Aubyn

What kind of look are you going for?" he asked instead.
"Clothed. — J.R. Ward

The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick. — Suzanne Collins

I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back. — Olivia Thirlby

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. — Stephen King

No self is of itself alone — Erwin Schrodinger

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer. — Rachel Bilson

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment. — Lennie James

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway. — Wale

Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it - how we treat our fellow man. — Alan Gratz

Who is going to teach fighting spirit to our kids if they are growing up watching us sitting in a comfortable zone in life.
We got to wake up and fight it out in our areas of passion, and be an example for our kids. — Manoj Arora