Uncorking Quotes & Sayings

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street! — Joe Garagiola

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. — Orson Pratt

I think everyone wants to be hugged at all times, but everyone is scared so no one does. Everyone has to sit around being unhugged. There should be people who are paid by the government to sit on public transport hugging people. The people should be called Hugabees.
Head Hugabee.
Hugabee of the Year.
Hugabee Headquarters.
No, that's retarded. Everyone would sue the Hugabees and they'd get upset and disappear. — Ben Brooks

Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more "first girl babies" were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Reading the very best writers - let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy - is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight. — Harold Bloom

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new? — Steven Wright

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. — Thomas Sprat

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know. — Nora Roberts

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. — Helen Rowland