Derriere La Quotes & Sayings

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music - combined. — Eric Schlosser

Some tea?" "I wouldn't say no, sir." When — Janette Oke

It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral. — Robert Lowell

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings. — Al-Ghazali

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. — C.S. Lewis

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. — Lewis Black

Your brother was wrong about you...He said you were gentle. The most gentle person he knew...You are not gentle. You have a ruthless heart...Remember it. — Cassandra Clare

Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams. — Stephen Richards

The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

I'm your best buddy, and you don't want me to die from a giant case of blue balls?"
"I don't think that's fatal," Aggie said.
"Have you ever had blue balls?" Eric asked.
She grinned and flipped her gaze to the ceiling. "Well ... "
"They're not just for Smurfs. — Olivia Cunning

Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — Joel Carmichael

I won't let people write anything they want to about me. — Gordon Ramsay

Her old appearance had been genuine, and had gained her nothing. But her new appearance was worse, hollow and false, and anything that she gained by it would carry that falsity like a disease. — Erika Johansen

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse — Steve Aylett