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Thing Quotes (page 450)

She closed her eyes and tried to imagine sex entering the picture. Would sex enter the picture in a silk robe, or would it be as nude as a platter of cold cuts? Would sex enter the picture from the left or the right? Would it ring first, or would it just slide in slyly, too quick and slippery to be denied; or, would sex barge in forcibly, red-faced and green-bereted, pushing all other things aside? Tom Robbins
John Steinbeck quote: "It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a..."
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it. John Steinbeck
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal. Pat Conroy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what..."
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
James Thurber quote: "I hate women because they always remember where things are."
I hate women because they always remember where things are. James Thurber
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland. J. G. Ballard
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am... Nick Hornby
Bertrand Russell quote: "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential..."
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.] Agatha Christie
spring is super in the supermarketsand the strawberries prance and glownever mind that they're all kinda tart and tastelessas strawberries gomeanwhile wild things are not for saleanymore than they are for showso i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beautyit takes more than eyes to know Ani DiFranco
Elliott Smith quote: "You can't get better at things you never play."
You can't get better at things you never play. Elliott Smith
What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. J. K. Rowling
William Gibson quote: "The street finds its own uses for things."
The street finds its own uses for things. William Gibson
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which..."
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget that their is such a thing as war. If the government if inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Ray Bradbury

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