Ramases Quotes & Sayings

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another. — Bubba Sparxxx

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying. — Kent Beck

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.
I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling. — Frank McCourt

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'. — Moss Hart

What's the point in protecting yourself when it keeps you from feeling anything? — Nyrae Dawn

There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is a known fact that the most extraordinary moments in a girl's life come disguised as ordinary days. — Natalie Lloyd

Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don't you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water ... — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. — W.C. Fields

Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour. — Paul Gambaccini

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do. — Kevin McCarthy