Tolerably Decent Quotes & Sayings

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing. — Mila Kunis

Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?" "Udolpho! Oh, Lord! Not I; I never read novels; I have something else to do." Catherine, humbled and ashamed, was going to apologize for her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation. — Jane Austen

Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came. "Where?" she asked. That shut him up. — Thomas Pynchon

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training. — Kenneth H. Cooper

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. — Robert Gottlieb

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood. — Stephen King

[ ... ] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Leonard Bernstein

I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain. — George MacDonald

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. — Don Herold

Iph
Was a larvorium and a violet:
A grave in Reason's early spring. And yet
It missed the gist of the whole thing; it missed
What mostly interests the preterist;
For we die every day; oblivion thrives
Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives,
And our best yesterdays are now foul piles
Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.
I'm ready to become a floweret
Or a fat fly, but never, to forget. — Vladimir Nabokov

The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things. — Steve Howey

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. — Thomas Haden Church

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger — Lee Ryan

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson