Slappy Squirrel Quotes & Sayings

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well. — Dave Morris

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked. — Stefan Heym

How many times do I have to say it? ... Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.' — Lance Armstrong

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance. — Henry Miller

But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit. — David Finkel

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. — Nick Cave

In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called "acedia": a "weariness or distress of heart . . . akin to dejection" that took "possession" of unhappy souls and left them lazy, sluggish, restless, and solitary. Later, acedia became widely translated as sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, and blended with melancholy in the popular mind. Both required, at the very least, confession and penitence. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could. — Kamisese Mara

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does. — Venkat Desireddy

I was doing fine until you were so ridiculously sweet at just the right times. — Sara Farizan

Lately, some nights, before falling asleep, Marina tries out some of the affirmations suggested by her therapist. She tends to stop after a minute because she struggles saying the same thing over and again, and all too soon the affirmations turn into something else entirely.

'I am a beautiful and productive woman; I am an artist. I am a fruitful and defective woman; I am an artiste. I am a fearful and resentful zoo-man; I am a sadist. I am a dutiful representative of batshit; I am batshit, I am zoo shit. I am a fruity loopy arsonist. — Laia Jufresa