Quotes About Spoonerism

#1. The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.

Wallace Stevens

#2. As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

#4. It seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him.

Charles Bukowski

#5. His sufferings were nothing compared to their own, but that did not make him hurt any less.

George R R Martin

#6. They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Kelly Preston

#7. Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

Susan May Warren

#8. We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Douglas Preston

#9. He had decided to trust me.

Tracy Chevalier

#10. The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still

Peter S. Beagle

#11. Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#12. If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

James Sinegal

#13. I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Tatum O'Neal

#14. I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

Tim Vine

#15. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

Dean Martin