Noggins Corner Quotes & Sayings

Just think of Emily Bronte, for example: psychotically bookish - but was there ever a woman screaming out so loudly for a good f***ing? I even suspect that's why Wuthering Heights carries on decades too long rather than sensibly drawing the curtains a little after Cathy's death. It was Bronte saying, 'Look - I'm simply going to keep on writing this stuff until someone comes and shags me raw. — Mil Millington

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. — James Gleick

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. — Jimmy Breslin

The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that. — Kevin Breel

God's power shines through everything we see, but it is no more evident than when we see the shining steadfastness of a tree that is hundreds of years old. I look up at the great arching branches of a tree like the Eagle Tree, found in the old-growth LBA Woods, and I think that is what it feels like to be embraced by the everlasting. — Ned Hayes

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.' — Rob Gronkowski

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them. — Michael Flynn

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy. — Billy West

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. — Hillary Clinton

We're individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found. — Anne Lamott

I like audacious ideas. — Gregory Benford

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? — Perry Marshall

Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for a more robust federal response, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did against Jim Crow-defending Southern governors. — Anonymous