Mahalagang Quotes & Sayings

For the first time in my life, I felt sorry for Jesus. Sorry that the miracles ascribed to him hadn't actually made a difference. Sorry that we were all alone in a universe where even our fathers would get us nailed to a tree if they were so inclined, or cut our throats if so commanded - see under Isaac, another unfortunate Jewish shmuck. — Gary Shteyngart

Body language generally fails to have its intended effect on the phone. — Haruki Murakami

I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font. — Christine Teigen

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity. — Ben Lerner

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes. — Dave Barry

So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves. — Gloria Furman

You won't want to leave when you've tasted Mom's fried chicken, Matt said with a touching faith in the power of grease. — Jane Davitt

meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved. — Tess Gerritsen

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers. — Charles Dickens

Necessity is stronger than duty. — Seneca The Younger