Fy 2012 Quotes & Sayings

Arnold is now the front runner. Everyone was snickering about it a month ago, now it looks like he will be the next governor of California. He is so confident he has already chosen a body oil for the inauguration. — David Letterman

Find some people you give a shit about. Who care about you. Who are smarter than you are. Find a woman. Who laughs at you. Who'll kick your ass out of the house. You find that woman and she's the same woman who'll throw herself in front of a truck for you? Well, then you're somewhere. — Alexander Maksik

I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad's creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At six years old, I lived in a world shaded by his ceramic glazes. There was love and color, but anger, too, in the way he kneaded his clay, palms pounding the rich, wet earth into shapes of his choosing. — Royal Young

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris

Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God. — Pope Francis

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. — Axl Rose

I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love. — Aspen Matis

Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it. — Russell Hoban

That which must not, can not be. — Christian Morgenstern

Mina held her breath as Jared's eyes flickered between them, the longest pause in the history of long pauses. — Chanda Hahn