Canto General Quotes

#1. Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.

Chris Farley

#2. No one is any one thing.

Martin Short

#3. There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#4. Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head - by reading.

Jim Trelease

#5. Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.

Anne Bishop

#6. Everyone's true self is a unique creation of God's, and the way to sanctity is to become the unique self that God wishes us to be.

James Martin

#7. If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

John Locke

#8. Running in desperate fear for your life is pretty much a righteous justification for eating junkfood.

Harold Koontz

#9. By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

Fulgentius Of Cartagena

#10. Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Ban Ki-moon

#11. At night the sky is pure astronomy.

Nicole Krauss

#12. Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Daniel Gillies