Yths Quotes & Sayings

I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show. — Bob Saget

Did you know the English wouldn't dream of putting olive oil on food? They use it for ear infections. Freddie told me."
"Yes, I've heard their cuisine hasn't evolved since the Middle Ages. — Glenn Haybittle

Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic. — Cassandra Clare

Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals. — Hal Elrod

Let us now turn to the question of the effects of physical punishment on children. This research should also not give solace to advocates of the Strict Father model. The major research indicates that having strict parents who perform painful corporal punishment in childhood leads to domestic violence, aggression, and delinquency in later life. Take — George Lakoff

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. — Vivienne Westwood

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. — Jo Ann Emerson

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. — William Shakespeare

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. — Virginia Woolf

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful. — Stokely Carmichael

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. — Terry Hands

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer. — Toni Morrison

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. — Ellen Key

I think TV is still, out of every medium, the one that really offers simple easy enjoyment. You've got lots of choice, you've got the opportunity to be entertained or informed on your own or you've got the opportunity to enjoy and experience programming together. It really probably is, I still think, the most emotionally engaging and bonding medium that exists. — Jill McDonald

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell