Calmer Waters Ahead Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I should have laughed even more uproariously at what happened next; as a newly anointed convert to the Old Comedy, I should have bounded to my feet, cried aloud, "Hallelujah!" and sung the praises of He Who Created Us, He Who Formed Us from the Mud, the One and Only Comic Almighty, OUR SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ARISTOPHANES, but for reasons all too profane (total mental paralysis) I could only gape at the sight of nothing less than the highly entertaining Aristophanic erection that Pipik had produced ... — Philip Roth

His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing. — Alessandra Torre

I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything. — Natalie Maines

When frying small fish, disturb them little. — Confucius

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle. — Chris Matthews

I have died too many deaths
that were not mine. — Audre Lorde

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. — Mickey Rourke

Maybe I should off myself right now and come join you."
Cordy frowned. "Why?"
"Well," said Lex, "it's no picnic over here in the land of the living. The whole town hates me, Mom and Dad probably despise me, there's an angry, murderous bitch tearing up the country, I've got your death to avenge and no one's offering ME any hard candy. — Gina Damico

Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right channel.
the Measure of my Days — Florida Scott-Maxwell

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes. — Elvis Presley

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts. — John Darnielle

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful. — Alan Moore

I've developed some kind of psychosis from being forced to do a job I hate because it's my 'destiny'. Only there's no such thing as destiny and there's no such thing as soul-mates. It's biology and it sucks ass so hard I've had a pleasant little mental break. I'm going to the pub now. Put my pizza in the fridge for tomorrow. Thanks." - Shaun Gallows — Sharon Stevenson