Nimiety Quotes & Sayings

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be. — William Monahan

If I could sprinkle some hopes over all of you, they would include these: I hope you each find a meatball in the spaghetti of your life; I hope your talcum powder never empties, that your spirit is like a cork and that you all live a thousand, thousand lives. Huzzah! — Sharon Creech

War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too. — Mao Zedong

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. — Tom Lehrer

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded. — Harry Connick Jr.

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that's not due process. That's certainly not judicial process. So there's the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process. — Ray McGovern

There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure! — Guy Deutscher

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington. — P. J. O'Rourke

Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world. — Janet Lembke

My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long. — Mitch Hedberg

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules. — Ben Bernanke

Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. — Regina Brett