Bokonons Quotes & Sayings

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works. — Kurt Meyer

Fortunately, due to a terrible misunderstanding, I soon found myself working as a consultant to the World Bank. I am not exactly sure what it was that led the World Bank to believe I had any expertise in infrastructure finance. I had never even balanced a checkbook. I hadn't even tried. There is not much reason to balance a checkbook when your checking account rarely tops the three-figure mark. And so, to the Third World countries who had the misfortune of working with me on their infrastructure projects, I wish to apologize. — J. Maarten Troost

There isn't an equation that can confirm something as self-evident (to us humans) as "muggy weather is uncomfortable" or "mothers are older than their daughters." There has been some progress made in translating this sort of information into mathematical logic, but to catalog the common sense of a four-year-old child would require hundreds of millions of lines of computer code. As Voltaire once said, "Common sense is not so common. — Michio Kaku

Is any blogger out there saying anything - do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. — Lindsey Graham

In the moment just before giving, I am loved. — Margaret Atwood

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. — Kara Walker

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is. — Richard Fleeshman

My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain. — Miriam Toews

Remember the scene in Cat Ballou where a very drunk Lee Marvin goes from unconscious to ranting to triumphant to roaring to weeping defeat, and then finally passes out? One of the men watching him says, with real awe, "I never seen a man get through a day so fast." Don't let this be you. — Anne Lamott