Datum Point Quotes & Sayings

You've had a long working life
As everyone knows
You can now do nothing at all
And then have a doze
Enjoy Your Retirement — John Walter Bratton

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way. — Christian Borle

It's all about our egos. She felt she was on the edge of understanding something important. They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to be truly intimate with your spouse; how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears? It was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you'd shared a bathroom and a bank account and argued over the packing of the dishwasher. — Liane Moriarty

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain. — William S. Burroughs

But as it turned out, the two had a great deal in common, for both Bailey and Thackeray (named for the famous novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair) were devoted bibliophiles who believed that "a book a day kept the world at bay," as Thackeray was fond of saying. Bailey was the offspring of a generation of badgers who insisted that "Reader" was the most rewarding vocation to which a virtuous badger might be called and who gauged their week's anticipated pleasure by the height of their to-be-read pile. (Perhaps you know people like this. I do.) — Susan Wittig Albert

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead

What I feel for you is real. Me standing here and begging you for another chance, that's real. — Cindi Madsen

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another. — Harper Lee

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast. — Nancy Carell

When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday. — Wolfgang Puck

The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong. — Isaac Asimov