Chiarenza Obituary Quotes & Sayings

And Quirk's a captain now," he said.
"Captain Quirk?"
The motorcycle cop grinned.
"Captain Quirk," he said. — Robert B. Parker

May the God of your choice bless you. — Kinky Friedman

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don't want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader — Nelson Mandela

Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. Now, I am not a poetical man myself, except in a vocal way, when it goes round a company, but I'm a practical one, and that's my experience. So's this rule. Fast and loose in one thing, Fast and loose in everything. I never knew it fail. No more will you. Nor no one. — Charles Dickens

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind. — Carl Jung

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. — E.F. Benson

And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods. — Elizabeth Warren

You ... you loved her, didn't you, Pa?"
Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps.
"Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one. — LaVyrle Spencer

Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god. — Machado De Assis

if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don't have any meaning. All one can ask is whether imaginary time is useful in formulating mathematical models that describe what we observe. — Stephen Hawking

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publicly debate whether or not women are "asking" for sexual assault is mind-boggling. — Laura Bates