Quotes About Doggerel

#1. Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

Sara Gruen

#2. I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers?

Lauren Weisberger

#3. It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.

Dave McKean

#4. Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Dana Rohrabacher

#5. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,

Melissa Stanton

#6. What the fuck is "purple rain"? It's doggerel, that's what; nobody has the foggiest idea what purple rain is.

Anonymous

#7. It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. To a chemist nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist, he must lay aside his personal subjective standpoint and must understand that muck heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that the evil passions are as inherent in life as the good ones.

Anton Chekhov

#10. Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

Lars Onsager

#11. Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.

Jethro Tull

#12. By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.

Criss Jami

#13. In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Maximus The Confessor

#14. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

John Flanagan

#15. The Boston Transcript once printed this bit of significant doggerel: Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way - He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong. You

Dale Carnegie

#16. Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Sheila Rowbotham

#17. Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

Ethel Mumford

#18. Marcie: Neurons that play together stay together, that is how we make connections.
Danny: You want to play on my neural network? Are you sending me a modulation signal?

Andrew Neff

#19. I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie.

Mark Lawrence

#20. There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

Jermain Defoe

#21. If 'All'
quite seriously all
'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is not related in the right way to Love Himself.

C.S. Lewis

#22. SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF!

Kingsley Amis

#23. Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

John Ruskin

#24. Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Edith Head