Hamshaws Quotes & Sayings

If life is a meal, then diaries are the toilets in which we shit out its vile remnants. — Sarah Silverman

So we ask them who they are, and their leader smiles at me and says, 'We are the light.' — Emily St. John Mandel

At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party. — Charles Dickens

I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me. — Elena Ferrante

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. — Carre Otis

Didn't deserve this sort of treatment; he was a dignified old man. — Douglas Adams

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place. — Marian McPartland

When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name. — Sam Kean

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me. — William Gibson

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course. — John Dominic Crossan

Pope actually said that maybe I'm not a good Christian or something. It's unbelievable. Which is really not a nice thing to say. — Donald Trump