Mcsweeneys Plattsburgh Quotes & Sayings

I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness - and that's the fear of it." - Dorothy Parker — Nicole Archer

You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror. — Alden Bell

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams. — John Patrick Hickey

Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be. — Mary Lee Settle

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions. — Michael Marshall Smith

Prepare yourself for the worst, and the best will always happen. — Tito Ortiz

Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way. — John Webster

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. — Barney Frank

I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money? — Alex Chiu

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it. — Clare Short

I can't stand makeup commercials. 'Do you need a lipstick that keeps your lips kissable?' No, I need a lipstick that gets me equal pay for equal work. How about an eye shadow that makes me stop thinking I'm too fat? — Maria Bamford

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition. — William F. Albright

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers. — Philip Yancey