Handbook For Mortals Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch. — Irving Paul Lazar

I hate quotations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pursuit of optimal fitness is a journey, a constant struggle, a lifestyle; a process where intensity during each exercise session, what you eat every single day and patience over years is what's required ... AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN OVERNIGHT! — The Fitness Doc

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world. — Jackson Galaxy

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. — Amanda Seyfried

The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves. — Paul Leppin

The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express. — Emily Haines

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley

Man lives for science as well as bread. — William James

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham

SKANK is scribbled in ballpoint pen on my desk. I don't exactly know why my heart starts to thump. It's not like there aren't messages and other handiwork all over this school. Take auditorium seat J-8. I found out during last week's Expectations of Excellence assembly that it's got a faded image of a penis carved on the armrest. No one likes to sit in the Pecker Chair for an assembly. People make fun of you the whole day after that. Ask Rob. — Meg Medina

The tear stayed in her eye, never falling down her cheek, and then the left side of her mouth crept up into a half-smile. This was my mom. She would come home to us again.
-If I Know It's Coming — Nick Hupton

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation, — Jiang Zemin

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy — Kahlil Gibran