Hydrogenation Produces Quotes & Sayings

Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. — Jack Kerouac

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair. — A.E. Housman

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. — Anne Rice

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson

Once, when I remarked that she looked like a disoriented bandicoot, she leapt up from the piano bench and beat me within an inch of my life with a rolled-up piano sonata by Schubert. Ophelia has no sense of humor. — Alan Bradley

God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect. — Euripides

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. — Alan Bennett

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself. — James Frey

Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens. — Phyllis Diller

COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do. — J. Ross Clara

Do you know what I did? I urrrrrinated on the cake at my ex-wife's wedding. Pissssed all over the icing.
Melvin Baylor - Seven Up — Janet Evanovich

We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers. — Bell Hooks

She sat on the side of the bed with her bare feet firmly on the thick Berber carpeting and tried to maintain a sense of calm. No need to let her emotions get the best of her. It wasn't as if this was a disappointment, exactly. Still, as she got up to get dressed, she couldn't help but think how much simpler this all would be if he'd gone ahead and died. Now the police would get involved, and there was nothing she could do to separate herself from the mess that was bound to come. — Sharon Sala

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. — G.K. Chesterton

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter