Thought Provoking Humorous Quotes & Sayings

In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification. These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary. — Jacque Fresco

You are beyond the sky; so go there. — Steven Cuoco

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times. — Evel Knievel

Because deep down you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come. — Markus Zusak

You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest! — Diana Gabaldon

I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do.
And then I don't.
I do.
And then I don't. — E. Lockhart

Taking the sweatshirt, he raised it to his face and sniffed the bloodstains left on it. — Tim O'Rourke

I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in. — Karen Allen

Tobias' body became a marble statue, and she knew she'd reached the darkness of his soul. — Monica Burns

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again. — Christopher Hitchens

All of this is such a long and dark and untellable story (untellable as all stories are). Meanwhile, one can only hold onto what is tangible and look at one's fingers, try to look into someone's eyes, and write down the sentences that are spoken, so that something is said by which one can begin to glimpse what really happened. — Ingeborg Bachmann

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King. — Julie Otsuka

Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you. — Clare Boylan