Beckoning Cat Quotes

#1. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.

Plutarch

#2. In God, holiness and righteousness are the characteristics of the one Sublime, Sovereign Being, to whom no one can issue a command or lay down a law. In

C.F.W. Walther

#3. I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

Wallace Shawn

#4. The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

Jimmy Carr

#5. You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.

Sarah Pekkanen

#6. America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Felix Dennis

#7. Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Richard Ford

#8. Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Jose Marti

#9. Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?

Jeaniene Frost

#10. The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#11. I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Mark Cuban

#12. Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Ellsworth Kelly

#13. It's a really nice house..."
"Yeah, full of booby traps and cameras and little robots that pop out of the closets at night and murder you in your sleep."
She burst out laughing. "Good point.

Elle Kennedy

#14. I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

Jill Soloway