Showing posts with label Charles Peters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Peters. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotes

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is
an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
- Jean Giraudoux

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like
being stoned to death with popcorn."
- Fulton J. Sheen

"In the United States there is more space
where nobody is than where anybody is. That
is what makes America what it is."
- Gertrude Stein

"A bore is a man who, when you
ask him how he is, tells you."
- Bert Leston Taylor

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation
from one kind of labor by taking up another."
- Anatole France

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they
appear to be busy when they are writing and
because the memos, once written, immediately
become proof that they were busy."
- Charles Peters