Mark Twain Cincinnati Quotes

#1. If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Mark Twain

#2. The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Bernard Goldberg

#4. I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

Mark Twain

#5. Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Dan Hampton

#6. It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. You talked to your mother about Duncan's erectile dysfunction?" He glared down at her. "Has he considered taking your TV away?

Dana Marie Bell

#8. We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us

Michael D. O'Brien

#9. Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.

Muriel Spark

#10. I will never stop complaining.

Margaret Cho

#11. Shit, Anita. Zombies in your apartment and a mad millionaire after you to perform human sacrifices." Her grey eyes searched my face. "You're the only person I know who has weirder problems than I do.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

Elia Kazan

#13. The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

Robert Fisk

#14. Can a man change the stars?"
"Yes William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything!

A Knights Tale

#15. When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

Mark Twain

#16. If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

Patience Strong

#17. There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

George Carlin

#18. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong