Funny Aot Quotes & Sayings

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear. — Dorothy Parker

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. — William Penn

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like. — Sam Wyly

The timepiece had been a birthday gift from Arian, his nineteen-year-old cousin in Tehran. It was plastered with pastoral steel and had the Faravahar hieroglyph sketched on it. This ancient pictogram was the symbol of a guardian angel. A remnant of a primeval daemon designed to protect the Persians. The clock's circumference was decorated with the flowers of life and in the middle there was a scripture written in cuneiform that read Good Deeds, Good Thoughts & Good Words. — Soroosh Shahrivar

She was right. The purebred girls were making mistakes on purpose, in order to give us an advantage. 'King me,' I growled, out of turn. 'I say king me!' and Felicity meekly complied. Beulah pretended not to mind when we got frustrated with the oblique, fussy movement from square to square and shredded the board to ribbons. I felt sorry for them. I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you've never seen. — Karen Russell

Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people. — Ron Porter

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time. — Tony Bennett

It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life. — Debasish Mridha

The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appreciate or even understand. — Chris Nicolaisen