Doug Buffone Quotes

#1. When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.

Lao-Tzu

#2. Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

Jorja Fox

#4. Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru
well, unavailable.

Emilie Autumn

#5. All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

Landon Parham

#6. I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

Peter Steele

#7. If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#8. I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books that were all her life.

Deborah Meyler

#9. The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Frederick Lenz

#10. He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept.

Ron Hansen

#11. The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Michael Caine

#12. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.

A.E. Housman

#13. We're all ridiculous ... all of us. It's as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.

Steve Maraboli