Desabrais Laundry Quotes & Sayings

Yet none of these things [laws, justice, human rights, money] exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. People easily understand that 'primitives' cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. Take for example the world of business corporations. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger stories. — Yuval Noah Harari

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

And I'll tell ya, I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other. You care about each other. It's wonderful! Plus, I love saying 'my wife.' Once I started saying it, I couldn't stop - 'my wife' this, 'my wife' that ... it's an amazing way to begin a sentence. — Jerry Seinfeld

When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can hobble around with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze and watch them.
Whether by wheelbarrow or wheelchair, I will do likewise to keep alive-as long as I can do as best I can-my connection with horses. — Monica Dickens

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms? — Phil McGraw

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time. — Edge

People aren't special. They never were. We're the biggest mistake in the universe. — Joe Hart

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before! — Leonard Maltin

My handsome, intelligent, inimitable, delightful, prickly, unlucky Alexei Pavlovich, by the power of imagination invested in me I'll make you who you are because I want to. — Mikhail Shishkin

The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It's found within the heart and hands Of those who look - and stay. — Laura Greenwald

Better arguments, maybe even better policies, get formulated when we know more about ordinary lives. While — Katherine Boo

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize. — Haruki Murakami