Cunninlynguists Quotes & Sayings

If you're doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world. — Martha Beck

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life. — Ben Elliot

Saying something to your child and then realizing that you sound like one of your own parents: deja vieux, mamamorphosis, mnemomic, patterfamilias, vox pop, nagativism, parentriloquism. — Steven Pinker

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new. — Leo Tolstoy

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there. — Kurt Cobain

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. — W. Averell Harriman

Then she says, 'I love you.' Like three drops of blood falling onto snow. — Jenny Downham

If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is. — Bill O'Reilly

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. — William Shakespeare

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. — Susan Cain

And also, where an outstretched hand is no longer a gesture but a moment of love, lasting until sleep, until waking, until everyday life. — Kim Thuy

I try whistling to fill in the silence. The soprano sax from Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," though of course my dubious whistling doesn't come anywhere near the complex, lightning-quick original. I just add bits so what I hear in my head approximates the sound. Better than nothing, I figure. — Haruki Murakami

You can't shave a cat with a shoe. — Ray Palla

He was afraid of certainty. — Oscar Wilde

I'm looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach. — Blake Crouch