Cacofonia Quotes & Sayings

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off. — Don J. Snyder

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. — Friedrich Schiller

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness. — Maira Kalman

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun. — Ed Sheeran

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. — Steve Jobs

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle. — Sri Chinmoy

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's? — Rush Limbaugh

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face. — David Blunkett

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision. — Karl Rove

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words. — Kelly Moran

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
[Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere aut innumerabilis
Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam.] — Horace

That scorpion is turning me into a human! Quick, stop him! Before the transformation is complete! — Vernon D. Burns

I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs — Louis Lingg