Punctiliously Used In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place. — P. J. O'Rourke

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750. — Dave Barry

Maniac kept trying, but he still couldn't see it, this color business. He didn't figure he was white any more than the East Enders were black. He looked himself over pretty hard and came up with at least seven different shades and colors right on his own skin, not one of them being what he would call white (except for his eyeballs, which weren't any whiter than the eyeballs of the kids in the East End). — Jerry Spinelli

The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me. — Roger Federer

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer

Saying 'I don't know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out. — Kyle Schmalenberg

I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name"

Though authors are a dreadful clan
To be avoided if you can,
I'd like to meet the Indian,
M. Anantanarayanan.

I picture him as short and tan.
We'd meet, perhaps, in Hindustan.
I'd say, with admirable elan ,
"Ah, Anantanarayanan --

I've heard of you. The Times once ran
A notice on your novel, an
Unusual tale of God and Man."
And Anantanarayanan

Would seat me on a lush divan
And read his name -- that sumptuous span
Of 'a's and 'n's more lovely than
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" --

Aloud to me all day. I plan
Henceforth to be an ardent fan
of Anantanarayanan --
M. Anantanarayanan. — John Updike

A good person, striving dimly,
Is well aware of the right path. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe. — Michio Kaku

I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare. — Amy Klobuchar

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds! — Walter Scott

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses. — Brian Spellman

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled. — Li Zhi Fang

I was a closet stutterer. — John Stossel

In all aspects of life ... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor. — George Lakoff