Laboriosidas Quotes & Sayings

Steve Dallas ... a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees. — Berkeley Breathed

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life. — Rob Sheffield

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. — Charles Caleb Colton

You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature. — CRICHTON Michael

Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M — Isaac Marion

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. — Willard Scott

Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life. — Sarah Winman

Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope

Maybe some find that so, but Joseph Sobran better expresses my feelings: "It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up."1 — Charles W. Colson

My tears simply broke through the fragile wall
that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me. — Arthur Golden

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have. — Marilynne Robinson