Unmeasurables Quotes & Sayings

Each morning in every family, men, women and children, if they have nothing better to do, tell each other their dreams.
We are all at the mercy of the dream and we owe it to ourselves to submit its powers to the waking state. — La Revolution Surrealiste No. 1

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it [a book], and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction [of a story]. — Elizabeth Gilbert

and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His — Jonathan Swift

Subject has the variety of life. — Walter J. Phillips

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. — John Wanamaker

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. — Amy Tan

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance ... Maybe my questions matter. — Elizabeth Moon

Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. — Denise Scott Brown

I don't care what people think ... I learned a long time ago ... I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience ... .and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself ... and as long as I don't go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband ... I'll do my own thing. And if the public doesn't like it, it's their problem, not mine. — Iris Apfel

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. — William S. Burroughs

When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11. — Penn Jillette

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. — Terry Eagleton

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. — Raymond Chandler

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece. — William Shakespeare

On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal". — Jack Cafferty