Computationally Designed Quotes & Sayings

If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. — Katja Millay

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling? — Ricky Gervais

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself. — William S. Burroughs

Youthful exuberance is splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. — Ouida

Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places ... give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps to the south and the jungles to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man — C.S. Lewis

we advised the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume. — Benjamin Graham

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me. — Cody Johnson

They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music. — Alex Ebert

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. — Susan George

I am now the site of an unmistakable sag ... With fancy holographic belt buckles do I attempt to restrain my stampeding softness. In vain ... My only virtues, as a physical specimen, are my sideburns, which are like the pelts of rare woodland animals. My sideburns are not to be ignored. — Rick Moody

Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations - riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five times five would always be twenty-five. The trick was to understand combinations of the various rules that made it possible to solve any mathematical problem whatsoever. — Stieg Larsson

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism.
[Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973] — Walter Cronkite