Famous Bad Predictions Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job. — Padgett Powell

Loneliness is a void in one's self that everyone feels at some point in their lives. I always felt so alone and at such an early age that it seemed like I was always alone. — Grace Lozada

I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish. — Ignatius Of Antioch

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. — Byron Dorgan

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole. — Jonathan Sacks

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same. — George R R Martin

You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while ... why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the space program ... Go figure. — Timothy Pina

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. — Eve Ensler

When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ... — Bret Easton Ellis

For, however old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection. — Charlotte Bronte

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive. — Joe Abercrombie

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much. — David Bowie