Ernest Everett Quotes & Sayings

Fate don't like it when people take up more space than they ought to ... — Terry Pratchett

We are all bodybuilders, so build the house you want to live in. — Rodney Page

I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off. — Lauren Conrad

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. — Thomas Paine

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office. — Charles Dickens

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions. — Samantha Bee

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. — Nicole Brossard

We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque

Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. — Judith Martin

We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these. — Ernest Everett Just