Uvanetid Quotes & Sayings

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's. — Robertson Davies

Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right. — Maajid Nawaz

Little did Crystal know that once you got hooked on knitting you would not merely "like the yarn you were working with," but become obsessed with the stuff, craving it, longing for it, fascinated by yarn as if you were under a spell. You'd see a skein of yarn somewhere and feel you just had to have it . . . or die. — Anne Canadeo

There may be people who like centipedes ... Personally, I would regard such an individual with deep suspicion. I have just petted my cat: "And how is this good little cat beast?" Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on his underbelly? "And here is my good big centipede!" If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. — William S. Burroughs

I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company. — Mel Brooks

When you have planted
the rose of Love into your heart
your life has not been in vain. — Omar Khayyam

The only Messiah still credible after the death camps would be one who wanted to come but could not because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence. — Richard Kearney

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it. — Brian Austin Green

Do you know what it's like," he said, "to feel that you're in the wrong body?"
"Well actually ... " the Doctor began, wiggling his own fingers in front of his face. — Jacqueline Rayner

The world is perfect the way it is. — Werner Erhard

I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the state's duty to get out of the way. — Allen West

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. — Gore Vidal

Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love. — Rob Bell

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser

People are just greedy animals, after all. — Joe Meno