Laffing Quotes

#1. Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#2. But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

John Podhoretz

#3. Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

Carole Bouquet

#4. The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

Cynthia Kenyon

#5. Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Octavia Butler

#6. I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it!

Otsuichi

#7. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. It was time to get out of what Coach called "small-stack mentality." I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted down.

Colson Whitehead