Conjecturally Quotes & Sayings

What're you majoring in?" I asked him. "Perverts?" I was only horsing around. "What're you trying to be
funny? — J.D. Salinger

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. — Tom Wopat

The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept, — Stewart Stafford

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. — Doug Stanhope

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill — Napoleon Hill

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies. — Jessica Cutler

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. — Bette Davis

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup. — Dashiell Hammett

Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things. — Victor Hugo

Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity. — J. B. Stoner

But in those first hours after you take it, your brain is tuned in like nothing you can imagine. Eyes like the Hubble telescope, sensing light that's not even on the spectrum. You might be able to read minds, make time stop, cook pasta that's exactly right every time. — David Wong

Smile. No one cares how you feel. — Stephin Merritt

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet. — A. N. Wilson

Writing a novel is a bit like being Daniel Boone. An author stands atop a ridge in a mountain range and can generally see a number of peaks in the distance. What lies between those peaks - the dales and glens, rivers, forests, and other features that distinguish one mountain landscape from another... is where the artistry and intrigue of the writing process lives. As the writer sets out into the story, leaving behind those high points - the beginning, a twist here and there, the climax, and, if perhaps a bit indistinct for the distance to cover, the end - entering the vale below, all manner of things can happen the writer never intended or expected at the onset. — Brett Armstrong

Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us. — Gregory Of Nyssa

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid. — Matthew Morrison