Eventful Periods Quotes & Sayings

To take so much punctuation in one hit initially sounds audacious, but perhaps the thief thought no one would notice as most readers never get that far into Ulysses - you will recall the theft of chapter sixty-two from Moby-Dick, where no one noticed? — Jasper Fforde

Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one. — William S. Burroughs

[Sylvain] told us that in India it's sometimes considered a purification ritual to go home and spend a year eating everything from one place--ideally, even to grow it yourself. I liked this name for what we had done: a purification ritual, to cultivate health and gratitude. It sounds so much better than wackadoo. — Barbara Kingsolver

That's the conditions that prevail! — Jimmy Durante

Now that you've abducted me, does this mean you're going to strip me naked and probe me? — Eve Langlais

Was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed. — Scott Anderson

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience. — Betsy Beers

He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust - just uneasiness - nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a ... a ... faculty can be. — Joseph Conrad

Time. Either you're for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. — Carew Papritz

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner. — Dianne Feinstein

Because you believed in me, I figured I was honor-bound to believe in myself. — Susan Carol McCarthy

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged. — Alfred Korzybski