Purveying Quotes

#1. Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with baloney detection, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Gullibility kills.

Carl Sagan

#2. I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

Peter Atkins

#3. The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

Shelley Berman

#4. I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Algernon Blackwood

#5. Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.

Garth Nix

#6. [Peggy Olson]: Just try it.

Matthew Weiner

#7. Why am I fighting to live,
If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
When there aint nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give,
When no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live,
If I am just living to die?

Tupac Shakur

#8. [ ... ] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

Herman Melville

#9. When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Tara Brach

#10. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Giacomo Casanova

#11. [T]he time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right

Harper Lee

#12. Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

Flannery O'Connor

#13. I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#14. Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

Eric Carle

#15. The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

Liberty Ross