Regurgitating Family Dinner Quotes & Sayings

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points. — Mike Birbiglia

life isn't black or white. There isn't only one picture that's perfect. It's about piecing together shades of gray to make something quite stunning. And the picture shifts. That's another Dad-ism. Remember his sea shadows? Each time the shadow moves, there's a new image. Only sometimes those clouds are stuck up there, so we're the ones who have to move to see it. — Barbara Delinsky

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. — Ray Bradbury

Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change. — Rick Warren

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles. — Joel Garreau

of all this?" Gilpin — Gillian Flynn

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short. — Terry Pratchett

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it. — Tom Felton

Don't you fancy having one of your dresses in the Smithsonian, Shelby?"
"Your humor's always been on the odd side, Grant."
"Thanks. — Nora Roberts

Commemorating the Holocaust is not, not not not not not, the same thing as fighting to prevent future holocausts. Most of the commemorationists are just whiners. They think that if everyone feels bad about past holocausts, human nature will magically transform, and no one will want to commit genocide in the future. — Neal Stephenson

Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for. — Nadia Boulanger