Clever Ashtray Quotes & Sayings

The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, because of all the manuscripts (inedible green tomatoes) submitted to Cavendish-Redux, my new stable of champions. I suppose it was about eleven o'clock when I heard my front door being interfered with. Skinhead munchkins mug-or-treating?
Cherry knockers? The wind?
Next thing I knew, the door flew in off its ruddy hinges! I was thinking al-Queda, I was thinking ball lightning, but no. Down the hallway tramped what seemed like an entire rugby team, though the intruders numbered only three. (You'll notice, I am always attacked in threes.) "Timothy," pronounced the gargoyliest, "Cavendish, I presume. Caught with your cacks down."
"My business hours are eleven to two, gentlemen," Bogart would have said, "with a three-hour break for lunch. Kindly leave." All I could do was blurt, "Oy! My door! My ruddy door! — David Mitchell

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input. — Ron Johnson

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. — Martin Heidegger

History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong. — Richelle Mead

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship. — Jesse Owens

if do amistake it is not a mistake but it is amistake to repeat mistake — Bilal

And, perhaps, Mr. Dobbin's sentimental Amelia was no more like the real one than this absurd little print which he cherished. But what man in love, of us, is better informed? - or is he much happier when he sees and owns his delusion? — William Makepeace Thackeray

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. — A. Whitney Brown

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And even though I'd love you to find meaning in every page, every paragraph of this book, cherry-pick from here, too. We're all different, so what's relevant for you is definitely, absolutely not the same as what's relevant for me or for any of the many hundreds of women I've taught. Take what's relevant. Ignore what isn't; it's there for somebody else who needs it. — Emily Nagoski

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again. — Charisma Carpenter

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations. — Chesley Sullenberger

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. — Ford Madox Ford