Brinded Cat Quotes & Sayings

The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. — Joe Biden

I have entered the New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a finalist. I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years. It's not that I think my cartoon captions are better than anyone else's, although some weeks, understandably, I do. It's that just once I want to see one of my damn captions in the magazine that publishes the best cartoons in the world."
- Roger Ebert
(By the way, in 2011 Ebert finally won, after 107 tries.) — Bob Mankoff

There's a time to live and a time to die.
The only trouble is, when would you know?
When would your mind let you freely sacrifice your life?
Life is as long or as short as you want it to be.
Or so they say. — Paul Leslie Griffiths

Estragon: They're too big
Vladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day — Samuel Beckett

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it. — Stephen Baldwin

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide. — Melanie Chisholm

I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted. — Stephen Kelman

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing. — Luciano Pavarotti

It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion. — Aristotle.