Flannery Flynn Quotes & Sayings

I don't like allegory. — China Mieville

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

You know, when we know our time is running out, we think more about the choices we made. — Corinne Michaels

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip. — Dave Barry

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast. — David Blunkett

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. — John Keats

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room. — Gwenn Wright

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. — Bill Gates

Be the change that you want to see — Mahatma Gandhi

The first shells to touch NATO-defended soil were those of a battery of 152mm D-20s fired from eleven kilometers behind the East German frontier, the battery commander anticipating his orders by several seconds. — Bob Forrest-Webb

When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.'
'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.
'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.'
'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex.
'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?'
'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex. — Jeffrey Archer

After all, the last thing Kenosi saw, before he closed his eyes forever, was his mother coming back to him. — Jodi Picoult

Mr. Jeavons, the psychologist at the school, once asked me why 4 red cars in a row made it a Good Day, and 3 red cars in a row made it a Quite Good Day, and 5 red cars in a row made it a Super Good Day, and why 4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don't speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don't eat my lunch and Take No Risks. He said that I was clearly a very logical person, so he was surprised that I should think like this because it wasn't very logical. I said that I liked things to be in a nice order. And one way of things being in a nice order was to be logical. Especially if those things were numbers or an argument. But there were other ways of putting things in a nice order. And — Mark Haddon

There's just something inexplicable about how a small light in the darkness makes it hard to lie, even to yourself. — Shantaye Brown

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, he grins at me. — Gwenn Wright