Momohiki Quotes

#1. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

Matthew Crow

#2. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Edward Albee

#3. A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

John Milton

#4. Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.

Jack London

#5. Angry, judgmental, and critical people don't make good evangelists.

John S. Leonard

#6. I haven't lived a full enough life to look back on, but I am too old to get by on being pithy and cute. I know enough now to know I know nothing. I am slugging away every day, just like you.

Amy Poehler

#7. Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

Gretchen Rubin

#8. Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing.

Judd Apatow

#9. Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

Brandon Jay McLaren

#10. Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.

Aristotle.

#11. Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

Ras Kass

#12. Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Robert Ley

#13. But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

David Gest

#14. Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.

Charles Duhigg