Saywerk Quotes & Sayings

They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because he thought about it particularly. He just couldn't see the point. It just made for a lot of hassle, being that way, so why be that way? Nobody was going to go back and live where they lived before, were they, and if they did (he vaguely suspected) there wouldn't be any Mongolian barbecue and maybe we'd all be listening to Pentecostal Metal and anyway the President was black. — William Gibson

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best. — Terry Pratchett

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. — Denis De Rougemont

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved. — Frederick Lenz

Not much different from the morgue. Smaller," she noted, scanning the steel worktables, the gullies on the sides, the hoses and tubes and tools. "I guess he got some of his knowledge of anatomy working here. Might have had some of his early practice sessions on corpses."
"Charming thought."
"Yeah, well, being as they were already dead - hopefully - it probably didn't upset them too much. Oh, and FYI? When my time comes, I don't want the preservatives and the stylist. You can just build a big fire, slide me in. Then you can throw yourself on the pyre to show your wild grief and constant devotion."
"I'll make a note of it. — J.D. Robb

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. — Abraham Lincoln

No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things. — Frederick Lenz

We ... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. — Peter Shaffer

Do you ... still believe?'
'Our very presence here, a Polynesian goddess sitting next to a Zulu thunder god, listening to the song of a Greek siren, should be proof enough that religions can and do coexist.' He looked back at the cross over the entryway. 'And I still do not know. — Karsten Knight

If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out. — Michael S. Horton

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. — Marilyn Monroe

It's frightening that there's no guarantee that I'll be loved. — Natsuki Takaya

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways — Penn Jillette