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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - [Narcissism] Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - [Democracy] For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. - [Law] I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - [Sex] I'm a born-again atheist. - [Atheism] I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. - [Sex] It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. - [Facts] Never have children, only grandchildren. - [Children] Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - [Style] Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. - [Television] The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. - [Class] The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. - [Religion] Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - [Writing] "That is New York." I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine. - 1876 [Books (First Lines)] Shortly before midnight, July 1, 1833, Colonel Aaron Burr, aged seventy-seven, married Eliza Jumel, born Bowen fifty-eight years ago (more likely sixty-five but remember: she is prone to litigation!). - Burr [Books (First Lines)] I am blind. But I am not deaf. Because of the incompleteness of my misfortune, I was obliged yesterday to listen for nearly six hours to a self-styled historian whose account of what the Athenians like to call "the Persian Wars" was nonsense of a sort that were I less old and more privileged, I would have risen in my seat at the Odeon and scandalized all Athens by answering him. - Creation [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Elihu B. Washburne opened his gold watch. The spidery hands showed five minutes to six. - Lincoln [Books (First Lines)] I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. - Myra Breckinridge [Books (First Lines)]
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