Planular Quotes & Sayings

Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal "Obamacare." That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's a couple trillion dollars in spending over the next 10 years. — Rick Santorum

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. — Erich Maria Remarque

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. — Donna Leon

Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion. — Lincoln Steffens

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. — Robbie Robertson

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves. — Keith Miller

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations. — Dilip Shanghvi

I want you, only you, all of you, for as long as I can have you. — Helena Hunting

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients. — Shalom Harlow

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments) ... — C.S. Lewis

He seemed to savor telling the story, as if he'd memorized its details especially for her: how three or four days after she and Lulu had left the general's redoubt, the photographers began showing up, first one or two whom the soldiers ferreted out of the jungle and imprisoned, then more, too many to capture or even count-they were superb hiders, crouching like monkeys in the trees, burying themselves i shallow pits camouflaging inside bunches of leaves. Assassins has never managed to locate the general with any precision, but the photographers made it look easy: scores of them surging across the border without visas, curled in baskets and wine casks, rolled up in rugs, juddering over unpaved roads in the backs of trucks and eventually surrounding the general's enclave, which he didn't dare leave. — Jennifer Egan

It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity. — Gautama Buddha

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. — John Quincy Adams

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay