Positive Phish Quotes & Sayings

I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can. — Seanan McGuire

But the only feature of the view that ever changed was the signatures of foam deposited on the beach by the waves. Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own runup onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start, but each slowed, spread thin, faltered, dissolved into a hissing ribbon of grey foam and got buried underneath the next. — Neal Stephenson

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? — Frances Wright

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. — Alice Neel

The older I get, the less I care about what's cool. I realize I'm old and weird. — Aesop Rock

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. — Earl Weaver

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers ... seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns. — Paul Fussell

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

At its worst human life is not tragic but unmeaning. The soul is broken, but life lingers on. As the will fails, the mask of tragedy falls aside. What remains is only suffering. The last sorrow cannot be told. If the dead could speak we would not understand them. We are wise to hold to the semblance of tragedy; the truth unveiled would only blind us. — John N. Gray

I don't listen to my own music at home. — Celine Dion

These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she dream of? Did she walk up stairs to where she lived and what did it smell like and what was she wearing and who were her neighbors? — Elizabeth Berg

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand