Pangesand Quotes

#1. Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

Robert H. Jackson

#2. Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Then there is the dress. It has been owned by many sisters as well and has been taken up, taken out, taken down, and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.

Terry Pratchett

#4. With each replacement of parts, a car slowly becomes Chinese.

Mr. Kuniyasu

#5. Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Katherine Dunn

#6. My dad was a terrible businessman.

Al Franken

#7. No question, your best times as a cook are the chef de partie years. Chef in charge of a section. It's the best and hardest job in the kitchen.

Tom Sellers

#8. The mourner is in fact ill, but because this state of mind is common and seems so natural to us, we do not call mourning an illness ... . To put my conclusion more precisely: I should say that in mourning the subject goes through a modified and transitory manic-depressive state and overcomes it.

Joan Didion

#9. Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered."

Robert De Niro

#10. Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...

May Sarton