Chumleys Pub Quotes

#1. Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

David Sedaris

#2. I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

Jemima Kirke

#3. A wish is a desire without energy

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws

Charles Brockden Brown

#5. You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

Paul Pierce

#6. The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Katherine Paterson

#7. Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

David Hume

#8. I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.

Lemar

#9. Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

#10. If anyone wishes for entertainment, such as will prevent him feeling solitary even when he is alone, let me recommend the company of dogs, whose moral and intellectual qualities may almost afford delight and gratification.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.

Frank Herbert

#12. Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.

Akio Morita

#13. If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

Michael Ian Black

#14. Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Margaret Atwood