Unsought Product Quotes & Sayings

If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairty tale from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. — Henry David Thoreau

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family. — Meg Xuemei X

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. — William Safire

Do not let the scorpions hurt you twice just because you're freaking over the possibility. — Susan Ee

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. — Oscar Wilde

Don't make me turn on the room's ability blockers. I'm not teaching middle school here. And turn off your phones, people. — Kasie West

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are. — Will Rogers

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. — Dave Grohl

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church. — Alice McDermott

Dancing Towards Bethlehem
If there is only enough time in the final
minutes of the 20th century for one last dance
I would like to be dancing it slowly with you,
say, in the ballroom of a seaside hotel.
My palm would press into the small of your back
as the past hundred years collapsed into a pile
of mirrors or buttons or frivolous shoes,
just as the floor of the 19th century gave way
and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust.
There will be no time to order another drink
or worry about what was never said,
not with the orchestra sliding into the sea
and all our attention devoted to humming
whatever it was they were playing. — Billy Collins