Microcentury Quotes & Sayings

So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, dicks are going to just fly into your face. — Aziz Ansari

Is it possible to observe without the observer? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged. — Carlos Wallace

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches. — Pierce Brosnan

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Of course much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but what it shows is how that word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear make-up, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humour, you don't use deodorant. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying. — Tommy Bond

Coaching is a non-directive conversation in which the coach asks a person questions to prompt reflection into what God is saying to that person. The coaching process empowers the person to develop custom solutions for his or her problems or goals. — Keith Webb

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter. — Neil Diamond

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove — Groucho Marx

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself. — Witold Rybczynski