Busalla Quotes & Sayings

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another. — Philip Roth

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder. — Ray Comfort

At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that. — Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby Of Swaffham Prior

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.
[It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.] — Niccolo Machiavelli

You know what we need? We need to get jobs, get the fuck out of that crazy house,' Natalie said, dipping a McNugget into her sauce.
Yeah, right. Jobs doing what? Our only skills are oral sex and restraining agitated psychotics. — Augusten Burroughs

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food. — Mark Hyman

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. — Benjamin Franklin

You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it. — Stewart Butterfield

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — Michel De Montaigne

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards. — Marilyn Vos Savant

It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away. — Bob Hope

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. — Saul Bellow

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. — Vance Havner

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive. — Roger Caras

Mauna Kea is a known biologically hostile work environment and one can only wonder why the
astronomy community is investing 1.4 billion dollars to build the world's largest telescope there. — Steven Magee