Noodge Quotes & Sayings

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. — Salman Rushdie

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever ... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:. — Charlotte Mason

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. — Edwin Louis Cole

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise. — Arundhati Roy

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down. — David Niven

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it. — Margaret Cho

Sometimes he'll chuckle at something, but rarely. Whenever somebody asks how come everybody's laughing at something and he isn't, Horst explains his belief that laughter is sacred, a momentary noodge from some power out in the universe, only cheapened and trivialized by laugh tracks. He has a low tolerance for unmotivated and mirthless laughter in general. For many people, especially in New York, laughing is a way of being loud without having to say anything. — Thomas Pynchon

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference. — Michael Moses

My rabbis taught me that it was wrong to say God caused the Holocaust; that he simply, in 1938, turned His head. He looked away. — Shalom Auslander

Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness. — Victor Hugo