Coarser Means Quotes

#1. Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.

Guy Davenport

#2. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

Marisha Pessl

#3. A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

Jim Cymbala

#6. The national question is purely a peasant question ... the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers ... , which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.

Mikhail Kalinin

#7. I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Jamie Farr

#8. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter