Wise Parables Quotes & Sayings

It is the wee hours of the morning, ma petite. The room service menu is somewhat limited. Jason has donated blood twice to me tonight; he needed protein." Jean-Claude smiled. "It was either take-out, or he could eat Larry. I thought you'd prefer take-out. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done. — Janet Evanovich

The Nurse
Practitioner and an issue of The American Journal for Nurse
Practitioners present a summary of each state's practice
acts as they relate to titling, roles, and prescriptive authority. As of January 2009 (Pearson, 2009; Phillips, 2009), — Teri Moser Woo

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world. — Ivo Andric

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. — Graig Nettles

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? — Alan Jay Lerner

Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned. — Franz Kafka

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference. — Sebastian Janikowski

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me. — Louis Menand

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve. — Paul Weller

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew. — Tucker Max

I do not teach. I relate. — Michel De Montaigne

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course. — Jimmy Fallon