Dung Heap Scripture Quotes & Sayings

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future. — William S. Burroughs

The future is like a Japanese game show,
you never know what's going on. — Tracy Jordan

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. — Carmen Kass

Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom. — Maya Angelou

Do women feel anything more keenly than curiosity? No, they will go to any lengths to find out, to know,to feel, what they have always dreamed of! Once their excited curiosity has been aroused, women will stoop to anything, commit any folly, take any risks. They stop at nothing. I am speaking of women who are real women, who operate on three different levels. Superficially cool and rational, they have three secret compartments: the first is constantly full of womanly fret and anxiety; the second is a sort of innocent guile, like the fearsome sophistry of the self-righteous; and the last is filled with an engaging dishonesty, a charming deviousness, a consummate duplicity, with all those perverse qualities in fact that can drive a foolish, unwary love to suicide, but which by others may be judged quite delightful. — Guy De Maupassant

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.' — Christopher Moore

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. — Aristophanes

When I visit schools, I try to reach kids who perhaps don't have books at home or aren't that keen on reading. Somehow you draw them in with the pictures and then perhaps they'll want to learn more about it. I use a lot of audience participation and find kids who aren't really part of it and try to include them - to draw in those reluctant readers. — Korky Paul

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. — William Faulkner