Onomatopoetically Quotes & Sayings

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once? — Leon Krier

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. — Billy Connolly

nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can. — Craig Johnson

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare

Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity. — William Hurrell Mallock

None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have always felt separate, why I have always felt unable to join in, to let go, to become part of the tribe, why I have always sniped or joked from the sidelines, why I have never, ever, lost my overwhelmingly self-conscious self-consciousness. — Stephen Fry

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid. — Jim Lehrer

Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I learned a long time ago that one way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in my mind. What I try to achieve during the season is a relaxed state of concentration. I simply try to cleanse my mind of the pressures that people are trying to heap on me. — Brian Sipe

I'd like to sleep for a hundred years, wake up and try again.
-Nora Blakely — Ilsa Madden-Mills

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings. — Louise J. Kaplan

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached — David Bryant

I like him in sweaters. I get the urge to cuddle and pet him like a stuffed animal. — Jenny Han