January 2011
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And when you’re standing with someone, and you’re on your mobile...
– Renny Gleeson
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I miss the days when coming home meant getting away from stress.
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When you’re very young, you sometimes have a vivid ideal in your head of...
– Sara Henry
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Caroline Bingley: Oh, Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words and blots the rest.
Charles Bingley: My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them -by which means my letters sometimes convey no meaning at all to my correspondents.
— Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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People say that Ecclesiastes is one of the most gloomy books of the Bible, but I find incredible encouragement in it. There’s something so perfectly real in it. Something to which I can relate far better than I can other, more blatantly hopeful passages. For example, from Ecclesiastes 7,
“10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such...
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Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.
– Benny Hill
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Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your...
– Jeffrey Rowland
(I couldn’t say anything to emphasize how much I agree with this so I’ll let it speak for itself.)
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It ain’t what they call you that matters, it’s what you answer to.
– W.C. Fields
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely...
– Russell Baker
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely...
– Russell Baker
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[In reference to punctuation sticklers:] We are like the little boy in The Sixth...
– Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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[In reference to punctuation sticklers:] We are like the little boy in The Sixth...
– Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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