Chuckleheaded Quotes & Sayings

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young. — Lloyd Jones

Even the smallest measure of time is greater than the greatest measure of space. Or is that a lie? Does it only seem so to us, because we can never get it back? — Paul Bowles

I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day. — Mizuki Nomura

I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady. — Jenji Kohan

Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet. — Mark Lynas

He looked as if he wanted to tear me open and crawl inside me. And I wanted him to. Fuck me. Fuck my identity. Fuck my own skin and soul. — C.D. Reiss

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ... — Charles Churchill

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. — Thomas Carlyle

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every
moment of their time together had meant so little to him — Sarah MacLean

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line
now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all. — Mark Twain

I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick. — Jimmy Piersall

Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival. — Carl Sagan

Tea should be bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword. — Lemony Snicket

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. — Horace

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. — Paulo Coelho

Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever. — Deborah N. Kabwang