Mapp And Major Benjie Quotes & Sayings

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around - while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia. — Jim Butcher

Life is a precious commodity, Charles. It's time you achieved your full potential and learned the true value of things." "You're talking like a Stalinist!" I cried. "People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! — Paul Murray

All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these things will fade away. — Hari Kunzru

So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in. — George Gamow

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band. — Julian Lennon

They were on foot, for the Royce had developed some curious wasting disease and was even more under the spanner. — Tom Holt

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero. — Carroll O'Connor

She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner companions Wikipedia, About, IMDb, the Zagat guide, Time out New York, a hundred Tumblrs, the New York Times, and People magazine. Was there not some strange forgotten pleasure in reveling in our ignorance? Would we just be wrong? — Joshua Ferris

I have a public bathroom rating system that I keep in my head, and anything that I think rates lower than two stars, I won't even enter. — Sally J. Pla

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. — Steven Wright