Moncure Daniel Conway Quotes & Sayings

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. — Norman Douglas

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever. — George Orwell

Words, however, are things. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing. — Roger Deakins

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life. — Joanne Harris

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation. — Rand Paul

Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No," said Arthur, "no," he added thoughtfully. "No," he added again, even more thoughtfully. "What?" he said at last. — Douglas Adams

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal. — Epicurus

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children. — Sarah Ruhl

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. — Billy Corgan

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us. — Agatha Christie

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all. — Henny Youngman

What are we but our stories? — James Patterson