Osher Cmu Quotes

#1. English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount Jr.

#2. Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.

Ari B. Goelman

#3. Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. The dining room table in the home of a person living alone becomes the entire world, divided into countries: the area for the mail, for work if there is any, a small duchy set aside for the placement of one dish, one bowl, one fork.

Anna Quindlen

#6. And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

Dennis Miller

#7. It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

Confucius

#8. By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.

Timothy Moran

#9. Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

Billy Corgan

#10. The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

Stan Jones

#11. I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. When the space of a lapsus no longer carries any meaning (or interpretation), then only is one sure that one is in the unconscious.

Anonymous

#13. It draws you in and you feel involved as if you're watching. - Barbara Bailey

Scarlett Avery

#14. I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.

Letitia Baldrige