Bokononism Words Quotes & Sayings

I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend. — J.R. Ackerley

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character. — Om Puri

Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing. — Joey Lawsin

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] — Plautus

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord. — Sophie Kinsella

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground, — Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none. — Patrick Modiano

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised. — Audrey Niffenegger

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Lemony Snicket

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss. — Margaret George

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. — Mark Shuttleworth