Platt Amendment Quotes

#1. Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

Bob Hope

#2. When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around.

Hans Zimmer

#3. Because I crave you. I crave your lips, your tongue, your body pressed against mine.

Helen Hardt

#4. The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

Caroline Knapp

#5. What is it, Father?" Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. "It's only that, when you're older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.

S.D. Smith

#6. Here is the most valuable thing in the whole of Moomin Valley, Groke! Do you know what has grown out of this hat? Raspberry juice and fruit trees, and the most beautiful little self-propelling clouds: the only Hobgoblin's Hat in the world!

Tove Jansson

#7. She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

Jean Webster

#8. Nobody believes in racial profiling until they get a red-haired sushi chef with a southern accent.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Bram Stoker

#10. Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.

Leah Raeder

#11. I don't want realism. I want magic!

Tennessee Williams

#12. A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe. Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.
An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe. Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go.

Richelle E. Goodrich