Whitelam Books Reading Ma Quotes & Sayings

from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether — Neal Stephenson

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation. — Jonathan Swift

I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later. — Kiana Tom

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. — Gary Cherone

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school. — Chris Brown

You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities. — K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna"

There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to dress up like daddy. — Robert Benchley

Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even. — Peter Enns

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around — Amy Tan