Parodies Nyt Quotes

#1. Mara hurries over and takes my hands. "Er, congratulations on your pending nuptials?"
I whisper, "He'll be so angry when he learns I have engaged us without his knowledge.

Rae Carson

#2. For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

John Clellon Holmes

#3. I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Jewel

#4. I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard - they always have someone to talk to.

Daniel Quinn

#5. Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it; similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

Giacomo Leopardi

#7. The civilization and justice of bourgeois order comes out in its lurid light whenever the slaves and drudges of that order rise against their masters.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.

William Shakespeare

#9. Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.

Richard Engel