Dorothys Ruffled Quotes & Sayings

The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver. — David Letterman

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them. — Salvador De Madariaga

Tell me, what kind of functions does pain have when one is convicted to 100 whippings in Saudie Arabia? You claim pain has a function, I claim that's scientific rubbish. The only thing pain really does is cause an instant reaction that is not rational and usually quite erratic. The famous example of the hand in boiling water, for example. You say it proves pain has a function. But exactly because of the spasmic reaction lots and lots of people will drop the bowl with boiling water over their entire bodies causing serious burns. So what was the 'function' of this pain? Pain and fear cause confusion and trauma. If pain actually did have a rational function, chronic pain would not exist. — Martijn Benders

Love without reason - bloom without season. — Debasish Mridha

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves. — Lynda Barry

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two. — Talal Asad

TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted. — Walt Whitman

This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. — Penny Chenery Secretariat

Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean? — Harper Sloan

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. — Jean Piaget

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks. — Alexander Ovechkin