Jenney Museum Quotes & Sayings

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is sometimes argued that disbelief in a fearful and tempting heavenly despotism makes life into something arid and tedious and cynical: a mere existence without any consolation or any awareness of the numinous or the transcendent. What nonsense this is. In the first place, it commits an obvious error. It seems to say that we ought not to believe that we are an evolved animal species with faulty components and a short lifespan for ourselves and our globe, lest the consequences of the belief be unwelcome or discreditable to us. Could anything show more clearly the bad effects of wish-thinking? There can be no serious ethical position based on denial or a refusal to look the facts squarely in the face. But this does not mean that we must stare into the abyss all the time. (Only religion, oddly enough, has ever required that we obsessively do that.) — Christopher Hitchens

People are more than who they allow you to see. — Dannika Dark

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation. — Chuck Palahniuk

I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early. — Nik Kershaw

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world. — Russell Brand

Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am. — David Sedaris

If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?! — Deyth Banger