Famous Artful Dodger Quotes & Sayings

You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax. — John Flanagan

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real. — T.L. Rese

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature ... — Stanton Peele

I.P. was at that age when our sense of who we are, or of who we have been told we are, chafes against what we discover in our reading. And immediately a choice seems to appear: to let the reading show us the way forward, like water picking its course over unfamiliar ground; or to direct the reading, to channel the stream, so that it confirms what we already think we know. I.P. was among those few people who could do the former. He had a mind that welcomed doubt and uncertainty; he revelled in it, in fact; he was not one to ever make the perilous decision of deciding to know. His mind was happy to grope its way to its own conclusions, happy to breathe easy in a state of unknowing. — Aatish Taseer

I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders ... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands. — Patti Stanger

books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company. — Self-Realization Fellowship

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder. — John Keats

You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce. — Wayne Dyer

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot. — John McCain

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. — Abraham Lincoln

But it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too. — Dodie Smith