Effectation Quotes

#1. A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Samuel Johnson

#2. It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Lawrence Kasdan

#3. One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.

Allison Pearson

#4. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.

Rebecca Shannonhouse

#6. When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

Amy Sedaris

#7. You are legally allowed to drink kid, so we figured the best thing for you is a car.

Cole Hauser

#8. God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife
if I don't murder you first.

Judith McNaught

#9. I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.

Bill Belichick

#10. No animal that massive could be so quiet. But if he was no ordinary animal, if he was of Prythian origin, if he was somehow a faerie, then being eaten was the least of my concerns. If he was a faerie, I should already be running.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. Learning is not cumpulsory ... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

#12. When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.

James Henry Breasted

#13. I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

Tony Vlachos

#14. If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Michael Badnarik

#15. When we are looking for opportunity, we should keep in mind that life itself is an opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

Roy Blount Jr.