Never Fails To Disappoint Quotes & Sayings

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. — Bob Barker

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. — George Bernard Shaw

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. — Jeanette Winterson

I thought about how my great-grandparents had starved to death. I thought about their wasted bodies being fed to incinerators because people they didn't know hated them. I thought about how the children who lived in this house had been burned up and blown apart because a pilot who didn't care pushed a button. I thought about how my grandfather's family had been taken from him and how because of that my dad grew up feeling like he didn't have a dad. And how I had acute stress and nightmares and was sitting alone in a falling down house and crying hot stupid tears all over my shirt. All because of a seventy year old hurt that had somehow been passed down to me like some poisonous heirloom. — Ransom Riggs

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. — David Letterman

All suffering is a consequence of a constant quest. A quest to follow a mirage, the mirage that is the creation of our mind, the illusion of happiness, the illusion of being loved. That is what it is. Love itself is an illusion. We misuse the word so much we forget what it means. It means nothing, because it simply does not exist. It is the destiny of the mind to seek. When it does not discover what it seeks, it gives birth to hopelessness. And given our undying spirit, from that hopelessness rises hope itself. This hope takes us to the quest all over again, churning us in an endless cycle of suffering. This cycle is called life. Suffer you will, one way or the other... — Nilesh Rathod

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe. — C. Everett Koop

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true,
only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture. — Karen Joy Fowler

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes ... it's nice to have different paints on your palette. — Dave Genn

Boy, I was daid. — William Gibson

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. — Jerry Saltz

Why should it be that just when technology is
most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? — Lawrence Lessig

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. — Noam Chomsky

I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool. — Aubrey Plaza