Douglas Richard Hofstadter Quotes & Sayings

You can't know people, only their names. — Marty Rubin

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you. — Richard Llewellyn

It takes a happy marriage to make light of small things. — Elizabeth Goudge

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me. — Valerie June

I have two sons. Both served. One as a marine officer in Iraq, one as an army officer in Afghanistan. I do not see - want to see one parent or loved one worrying about getting a call in the middle of the night. I would not place one American life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary. But to destroy ISIS, it is necessary. — George Pataki

Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen. — Anne Michaels

A woman should be able to see the reflection of herself within her lover's eyes. This tells you that you are all that your lover sees. However, by simply placing that thought into your mind, and creating that image, your illusion will blind you from what your lover truly sees. This is usually a woman's reality, until they start to demand the truth. — Lionel Suggs

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly. — H. G. Bissinger

I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible. — Hanley Ramirez

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science. — Sarah Palin

I am so stupid, little man," I told Phillip. "No you're not. Lizzie in my class, she's stupid. She eats her boogers. You don't do that. I've been watching. — Mary Calmes

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. — Peter Benchley

There is not a single one of us, no matter how old, that does not have a moral heart, an educated heart, a heart that learned to love while human, and a heart that should have learned ever more deeply to love as preternatural. — Anne Rice