Butera Algonquin Quotes & Sayings

If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance. — Charles Dickens

People who prefer e-books ... think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel. — Joe Queenan

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death. — Russell Brand

You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want. — Neale Donald Walsch

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work. — Todd Barry

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. — Pee Wee Reese

You deserve more than a secondhand I love you. — Colleen Hoover

It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body. — James Elkins

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E.B. White

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation. — Johnny Weir