Gets Quotes (page 180)

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• best
• thinking
• choices

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. Richard Bach

• world
• money
• doctor who

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! Stephen Colbert

• wonder
• wonderful
• manly

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. Woody Allen

• letting go
• done
• getting

By letting go it all gets done. Lao Tzu

• evening
• look
• blonde

Blondes are like left-handed athletes, they all get a second look even if they don't deserve one. Frank Deford

• get
• tax
• noticed

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. John Irving

• tired
• getting tired
• getting

He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back! Billy Ray Cyrus

• time
• look
• little

This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember. This... Alice Munro

• go
• bounded
• about

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff John Steinbeck

• drinking
• manly
• manned

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said Cormac McCarthy

• cold
• car
• street

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet. George Harrison

• new york
• new
• spit

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. Lewis Grizzard

• couple
• song
• thoughts

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple of hit songs then. Not so many years ago. And now here I was, inside a closed circuit, spinning my wheels. Knowing I wasn't getting anywhere but spinning just the same. I had to. Had to keep that up or I wouldn't be able to survive. Haruki Murakami

• faith
• technology
• get

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285). Don DeLillo

• love
• tired
• thinking

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Mother Teresa