Watah Quotes & Sayings

So I'm standing in a tree thirty feet above the pond with my three friends and my friend Pat says, "Dude, jump!" And I look down at the water, which is so far away, and I say, "That doesn't seem like a good plan." And they said, "Dude, we already jumped, it's no biggie. What's the worst thing that could happen? It's only watah" (that's "water" with a Boston accent), which is really flawed logic, that watah logic. I learn later that many bad things historically have happened in water. Shark attacks. Drowning. Bad sex. But my friend Nick makes an argument that in Massachusetts is irrefutable. He's like, "Do it." So I do. — Mike Birbiglia

Always be classy. Never be crazy. — Greg Behrendt

A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. — Mark Twain

I am glad you think I am all those things, and I believe you. But I'm not going to magically think I'm beautiful or perfect or talented just because you do. I have to get there for myself. I have to believe those things for myself - not because I have a boyfriend who values me and thinks I invented airplane neck pillows. If I base my self-worth on someone else's opinion or view of me, then I will also base my lack of worth on that person's opinion as well. And that has the potential of tearing me to pieces. — Penny Reid

My timing is so precise a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in. — Phyllis Diller

Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force. — Angry Zodd

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you. — Martha Beck

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker