Compensatory Shock Quotes

#1. A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

Jay Leno

#2. Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.

Sarah Hall

#3. I'm eager to start my new life with her by my side.
She's my best friend.
My dream girl.
My soulmate.

J.L. Perry

#4. The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. I always thought unicorns were made from sunshine and rainbows and good feelings. Like you just appeared one day in a field filled with flowers and a big fat sunbeam falling all around you. And there'd be butterflies or something. That sounded way pretty. And realistic for unicorn creation.

T.J. Klune

#6. The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Emile M. Cioran

#7. And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.

Philip K. Dick

#8. The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Charles Reade