Operatively Coupled Quotes

#1. I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

Erno Rubik

#2. The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we've learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.

Haruki Murakami

#3. It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

Sterling Marlin

#4. You don't want to be pitied."

"Why not?"

"I don't really know, but I know that you don't want it. No one ever wants anyone else's pity. In the movies anyway.

Ainslie Hogarth

#5. I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Preston Brooks

#6. Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

Anne Murray

#7. Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

Don Rickles

#9. I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

Bill Kreutzmann

#10. Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.

Nick Hornby

#11. He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jim Goad