Nimiety Quotes

#1. Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

Tom Lehrer

#2. If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

#3. The other great heritage is Christian ethics - the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual, the humility of the spirit. These two heritages are logically, thoroughly consistent.

Richard Feynman

#4. I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Jose Saramago

#5. 'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.

Grace Slick

#6. This was the boy who now kissed her without reservation, as if he were dying and she was air itself.

Morgan Rhodes

#7. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come

Anonymous

#8. I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Gore Vidal

#9. During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Kevin Pietersen

#10. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

J.M. Coetzee

#11. Dull people filled him with terror.

Thomas Wolfe

#12. Percy: "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"
Blackjack: "Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.

Rick Riordan

#13. I dropped my gaze to the faded denim molded around his ass. God, someone needed to give Wrangler a hug.

Eden Connor

#14. Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

Terence McKenna

#15. It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Erica Jong

#16. I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough