Fathers Lap Quotes

#1. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ivar Giaever

#2. Rue not my death. Rejoice at my repose, It was no death to me but to my woes. The bud was opened to let out the rose. The chain was loosed to let the captive go." - ROBERT SOUTHWELL ON MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

J.T. Ellison

#3. It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Joe Slovo

#4. Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question.

Mark Bell

#5. The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

William H Gass

#6. They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Adrienne Rich

#7. The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Ann Coulter

#8. There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this.

John Grisham

#9. Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.

Stephen Breyer

#10. Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

Tania Bruguera

#11. Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

Victoria Secunda

#12. You can tell when a girl went out of her way to look good.

Buddy Valastro

#13. I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.

Laurell K. Hamilton