Circumvention Literature Quotes & Sayings

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. — Theodore Parker

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. — Thomas Carlyle

I'm too horny tonight to be productive. Right now the only thing I could make is love. And then I wouldn't be productive, I'd be reproductive. — Jarod Kintz

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left. — Robert Wyatt

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. — Dale Archer

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring. — Jason Calacanis

I know Martin sometimes watches pornography, we don't have secrets from each other, and if he didn't watch it he probably would be the only man in Germany who didn't - I think Internet pornography was designed for German men, because they like to be alone and control things and have fantasies of power. But he says he only watches it because I have so many female Internet friends. — Jonathan Franzen

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind. — Quintilian

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out. — Maurice Gibb

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives. — Jeanine Basinger