Quotes (#483)

"I became a feminist
as an alternative to
becoming a masochist."
- Sally Kempton

"The great enemy of clear language
is insincerity. When there is a gap
between one's real and one's declared
aims, one turns as it were instinctively
to long words and exhausted idioms, like
a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
- George Orwell

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed
as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute
an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black
cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what
she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
- Solomon Short

"A large income is the best recipe
for happiness I ever heard of."
- Jane Austen

"The incompetent with nothing to
do can still make a mess of it."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Faith is, at one and the same
time, absolutely necessary and
altogether impossible."
- Stanislaw Lem

Quotaria

Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike

Washington is the only place where
sound travels faster than light.
- CVR Thompson

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood,
because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher

The past was erased, the erasure
was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- George Orwell [1984]

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often
turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

You can go a long way with a
smile. You can go a lot farther
with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone

Quotes

"All animals are equal but some
animals are more equal than others."
- George Orwell

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens,
but the writer must develop an approach
for the rest of the time... The wait is
simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a
dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards

My wife and I were happy for
twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield

The greatest mistake you can make is to
be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

My theory is that if you look confident you
can pull off anything - even if you have no
clue what you're doing.
- Jessica Alba

Quotaria

"Every generation imagines itself to be more
intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it."
- George Orwell

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like
you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special
talent for the business of government; they have only a
talent for getting and holding office."
- H. L. Mencken

"There's no point in being grown up
if you can't be childish sometimes."
- Doctor Who

"Pair up in threes."
- Joe DiMaggio

Poison Ivy: It took God seven days to create
paradise. Let's see if I can do better.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

Set your goals high, and don't
stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

Quotes

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed,
but win out in the end because they've stayed true to
their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's the good girls who keep diaries;
the bad girls never have the time."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The truth that makes men free is for the most
part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
- Herbert Agar

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only becuase
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- Eric Blair (George Orwell)

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature
does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A little subversion is good for the soul."
- "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"

"How do I know about the world? By what is within me."
- Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching"

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer

"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
- Christine Keeler

"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
- John Wooden