Poll Takers Quotes

#1. Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

Dana Gould

#2. God never gives us more than what we can carry.

Regina Brett

#3. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.

Anne Tyler

#5. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

Aisha Tyler

#6. If flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom, that is not because they are too solid, too gross, too distinct, too "illustrious with being." They are too flimsy, too transitory, too phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#8. I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.

Louise Hay

#9. There couldn't be anything more perfect, she thought, than slow dancing, barefoot, on a balcony in New Orleans, while the rain poured down and twilight wrapped around them

Linda Howard

#10. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

#11. Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint - a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).

Gudjon Bergmann

#12. The sum of things there is no power can change,
For naught exists outside, to which can flee
Out of the world matter of any kind,
Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring,
Break in upon the founded world, and change
Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.

Lucretius