Soaped Mouth Quotes & Sayings

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand) — Claudia Roth Pierpont

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem." — Edward Hirsch

Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football? ... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get. — Frank Nugent

Psalm 67 For the choir director: A song. A psalm, to be accompanied by stringed instruments. 1 May God be merciful and bless us. May his face smile with favor on us. Interlude 2 May your ways be known throughout the earth, your saving power among people everywhere. 3 May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise you. 4 Let the whole world sing for joy, because you govern the nations with justice and guide the people of the whole world. Interlude 5 May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise you. 6 Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us. 7 Yes, God will bless us, and people all over the world will fear him. — Anonymous

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things. — Kingsley Martin

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect. — Frank Tashlin

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas. — Rachael Harris

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come. — John Locke

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. — Auguste Rodin

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. — Northrop Frye

I don't take breaks, I just break records — Lil' Wayne