Heads Battered Quotes

#1. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

Thomas Sowell

#2. I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Giannina Braschi

#3. If someone is telling you to live in interesting times, they are basically telling you they want you to die horribly, and to suffer terribly before you do. Seriously, they are not your friend. This is a tip I am giving you for free.

John Scalzi

#4. Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Samuel Butler

#5. Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Vin Scully

#6. That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Terry Pratchett

#7. December 25, 1963
Christmas night and they've battered their heads together until they are silly and they've smiled themselves silly and vomited on the floor, 98% of them amateur drinkers, amateur Christians, amateur human beings

Charles Bukowski

#8. The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Henry Adams

#10. I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

Mike White

#11. Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

David Hewson

#12. Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Jeffrey Deitch

#13. He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

Anna Godbersen

#14. Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

James Fenton

#15. Gratitude is infinite praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Two babbies shagging each other like they were the first two on earth to discover how 'twas done.

Stephen King