Tom Oord Quotes & Sayings

Peter," Ashley asked softly, "Do you know what that was?"
"Of course," Peter said, much affronted. "A thimble."
"No," said Ashley, staring, "That was a kiss."
"Didn't it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you've had in the past?"
Peter looked shifty. "Well, yes."
"Ha!"
"It was my first thimble with tongue." Peter told her with dignity. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. — Alexander Pope

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. — Jo Brand

The kind of late where the 99% effective warnings on the side of condom boxes flashed before my eyes as I white knuckled my way down the 405, silently screaming, why me? Why, oh why me? I'm a new millennium girl. I took copious notes in 6th grade Sex Ed. — Gemma Halliday

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. — Ayelet Waldman

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules. — F. Lee Bailey

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. — Ambrose Bierce

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion ... in private self-defense. — John Adams

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II. — Warren Christopher

But nobody lives in a universal thing called culture. They live only in specific cultures, each of which differ from one another. Plays written and produced in Germany are three times as likely to have tragic or unhappy endings than plays written and produced in the United States. Half of all people in India and Pakistan say they would marry without love, but only 2 percent of people in Japan would do so. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they are often afraid of saying the wrong things in social situations, whereas 65 percent of all Japanese say they are often afraid. In their book Drunken Comportment, Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton found that in some cultures drunken men get into fights, but in some cultures they almost never do. In some cultures drunken men grow more amorous, but in some cultures they do not. — David Brooks

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money. — Demetri Martin

(...) I've always thought of myself as a kind person. Not saintly but generously thoughtful (in a bitchy sort of way). (...) — Harvey Fierstein

My cup runneth over and I worry about the stain. — Caedmon's CaLL

Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation. — Jack Canfield