Trixter One In A Million Quotes & Sayings

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened. — Bob Newhart

Rory stood up with some difficulty, the chair still tied to him. He leaned over me [Maria] and managed to pull my ropes free. Then he turned to Dr Bloom.
'We're escaping,' he said. 'Goodbye.'
Chair still tied to his back, he ran with me from the room. I take it all back. Rory is just wonderful. — James Goss

Patriotism is the religion of hell. — James Branch Cabell

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness. — Max Beerbohm

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places. — Robert A. Dahl

One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple. — William Katt

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues

I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama. — George Meyer

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence. — Julie Reisler

It wasn't a little kiss, Not like your first peck or like the time you made out with your junior high boyfriend behind the movie theater. It was throw-your-arms-around-his-neck, bury-your-fingers-in-his-hair, why-haven't-we-done-this-before kissing — Jenna Evans Welch

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do. — Patrick Swayze

...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody... — Charles Dickens

Read what gives you delight - at least most of the time - and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don't make them your steady intellectual diet, any more than you would eat at the most elegant of restaurants every day. It would be too much. Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. — Alan Jacobs

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses. — Colin Powell