Maulings Quotes

#1. Reports also indicate that the Night Vale Private Library will be entirely free of librarians, a fact that will be of little comfort to the many public library-goers who are injured or killed in librarian maulings every year.

Joseph Fink

#2. Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over.
Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group?
Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Yanis Varoufakis

#4. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.

Eric Ludy

#5. Aha. The mom doesn't know. She's fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.

Andrew Clements

#6. I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

Pam Dawber

#7. It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.

Mike Birbiglia

#8. Prayer is receiving by faith what God has already done!

Andrew Wommack

#9. Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Bessie Smith

#10. What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

G.K. Chesterton

#11. There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.
But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,
not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.

Raymond Carver

#12. We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.

Jon Stewart

#13. I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.

Benjamin Zander

#14. I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

Monica Seles

#15. Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Marty Rubin

#16. Night came, but unattended with repose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.

John Dryden

#17. Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Fred Couples