Emory Austin Quotes

#1. It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

Anthony Burgess

#2. Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

Andy Stern

#3. Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Patricia Churchland

#4. When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

Danny Boyle

#5. A happy life is a life for others.

Henri Nouwen

#6. Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine."
Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.

James Ellroy

#7. I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.

Anna Banks

#8. People will tell you that theories don't matter and that logic and philosophy aren't practical. Don't you believe them. Reason is from God, and when things are unreasonable there is something the matter.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

Emory Austin

#10. There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Chinua Achebe

#11. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Irving Stone

#12. I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Ivan Reitman

#13. If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?

Philip G. Zimbardo

#14. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Kristin Hannah