Fivebucks Quotes & Sayings

I love making puns. — Fred Gwynne

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood. — Meg Cabot

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence. — Angela Davis

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American. — Jerry Reinsdorf

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from. — David Brin

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Kafka was a master at the gruesome task of picturing people who do not use their potentialities and therefore lose their sense of being persons. The chief character in The Trial and in The Castle has no name - he is identified only by an initial, a mute symbol of one's lack of identity in one's own right. — Rollo May

Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into the tool a vast, blind universe might use to perceive itself. If this is so then truly "all is vanity". What could be more pleasing to the cosmic narcissist than to gaze eternally with a billion eyes into the mirror that is himself? What fault, however, if certain eyes ultimately don't like what they see? — Dan Garfat-Pratt

Five bucks for coffee?? Freaking Starbucks. They should change their name to Fivebucks. — Katie Kacvinsky

If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty. — Buddy Hackett

Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed? — Kate Morton

All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there. — Ray Bradbury

I'm not ambitious. — Amy Sedaris

Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing. — John Shelby Spong

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz