Idiotypic Quotes & Sayings

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true.
In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical. — Craig Ferguson

Guy: So how'd you make an Eton Mess?
Harry: Tell him he only got into Bristol? — Laura Wade

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction. — Ben Bernanke

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. — Gail Simone

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life. — Casey James

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide. — Eddie Cochran

Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence. — John Eccles

What is obscenity? And to whom? — Allen Ginsberg

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. — Plotinus

I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled look was wandering around his face (quite surprised to be there). Seeing him like this, so un-Dad, made me feel sorry for him - though I didn't let on. His befuddled expression reminded me of those unflattering photographs of presidents The New York Times and other newspapers adored sticking on their front page in order to show the world how the Great Leader looked between the staged waves, the scripted sound-bites, the rehearsed handshakes - not staunch and stately, not even steady, but frail and foolish. And though these candid photographs were amusing, when you actually thought about it, the underlying implication of such a photograph was scary, for they hinted how delicate the balance of our lives, how tenuous our calm little existences, if this was the man in charge. — Marisha Pessl