Disrespectful Jamaican Sayings

#1. (B)ut a second can split in a million different directions ...

Neal Shusterman

#2. A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

Peter Hoeg

#3. Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before so blessedly what it is to have a friend. When he had spoken some sound words of sympathy and encouragement, we sat down to consider the question, What was to be done?

Charles Dickens

#4. The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say, a plundered mailbox. A familiar note is produced. It's the one Desolation plays to keep its instrument in tune.

Andrew Hussie

#5. Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Immanuel Kant

#6. When I am at work, that is my time to work. The workspace is not the appropriate arena for us to discuss your problems. When I am there I need to be left undisturbed to check what people are saying about me on Twitter.

Michael Ian Black

#7. In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. If you want to be the craziest person in the room, just be yourself. These days, it's considered a ridiculous idea.

Me

#9. Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Pete Seeger

#10. Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die.

Big Joe Turner

#11. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Noah Feldman

#12. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

William Holden