Curnutt Patio Quotes

#1. What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.

George Eliot

#2. Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

Martin Parr

#3. There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

Joan Robinson

#4. Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

John Sulston

#6. He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to look at me. An instant that would have to last forever. And then the flames rose higher and my brother was gone.

Alice Hoffman

#7. The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.

Brian Bosworth

#8. The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

H.L. Mencken

#9. That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Richard Roeper

#10. So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Annie Dillard

#11. This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Nikki Haley

#12. The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

Laurence J. Peter

#13. When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.

Mitch Hedberg

#14. Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry McGuire