Tovio Rist Quotes & Sayings

Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever. — James Simpson

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. — Gene Wolfe

Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon. — Flann O'Brien

This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want. — Tamara Lush

When you name yourself, you always name another. — Bertolt Brecht

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on. — Jim Bakker

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. — Wilson Mizner

Claritypoint: No one can see your value unless you believe it first. — Kimberly Giles

She spilled your secrets," said Quinn
"Yeah?" He sliced off a piece of chicken and glanced across the table. "What's my name Becca?"
Busted. Becca wanted to melt into a puddle.
Quinn grinned. "You mean it's not really New Kid? — Brigid Kemmerer

I'm not consumed with political machinations. — Benjamin Netanyahu