53 quotes found
“People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.”
“Leave it to the Americans to use love as a motivational tool while challenging insects to declare whether they are with you or against you.”
“A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.”
“The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.”
“Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct....”
“Excerpt from Magel's Daughter:"I think we're all like the lutefisk, steeped in poison, and then we try to clean it up for Christmas.”
“The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.”
“You're hopeless dumbif you blindly tweet rumours and get ripped on-line.”
“She's been, but she's coming back," he said. "I expect her every minute. Ah! there she is."This was rather stupid of Stephen. He ought to have guessed that Lucia's second appearance was officially ...”
“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”
“Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.”
“Are we looking at each other suspiciously when colour-blind cured.”
“You are either on Wall Street or youre a bum and theres nothing in between.”
“Pay attention, Gareth said to Moxie. If it comes down to a choice of gettin captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,”
“Incidentally, its easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.”
“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y....”
“It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.”
“During the Cold War of the 1950s, American spies were issued eyeglasses with thick, clunky frames. If captured, they were trained to casually chew the curved earpieces, where fatal doses of cyanide...”
“Hell was full so i came BACK .......”
“Heres a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure theyre right that theyll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: Always to be right, always to trample forward,...”
