Defunct Amusement Quotes & Sayings

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. — Scarlett Johansson

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body. — Leo Tolstoy

In the shade of words sits life itself. — Aisha Mirza

Our mother, in several beautiful ways, may have been a little crazy. For example: who dries their clothing with a hurricane coming? Like Ossie, Mom got distracted easily. It was seventy-thirty odds whether she would remember a conversation with you. Her moods could do sudden plummets, and she'd have to "take a rest" in the house, but she'd always emerge from these spells with a smile for us. — Karen Russell

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter. — Sarah Josepha Hale

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact. — Leon M. Lederman

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. — Huston Smith

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored. — Idris Elba

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted. — Mason Cooley

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced. — Alice Miller

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr