Crossman Quotes

#1. Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Clive James

#2. For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.

Richard Crossman

#3. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

George Orwell

#5. Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!

Cristiano Ronaldo

#6. When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.

David Crossman

#7. She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit.

Dana Marie Bell

#8. Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

Richard Crossman

#9. Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

Kathryn Davis

#10. If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Rudy Rucker

#11. I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

#12. Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Rick Riordan

#13. If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning.

Debasish Mridha

#14. If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Hugh Grant

#15. Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.

Maya Angelou

#16. Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

Galileo Galilei

#17. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

#18. First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

Deacon Jones

#19. Age, like numbers on a scale and letters on a report card, tells us very little of who we are. You decide every year exactly how young and how old you want to be.

Shauna Niequist

#20. The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

Richard Crossman