Saleeby Jango Quotes

#1. The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#2. Jokes have a relation to the unconscious.'
'Jokes may indeed have a relation to the unconscious. But also: sometimes a joke is just a joke.'
'Directed against-'
'Directed against you. Whom else? The man who doesn't laugh. The man who can't take a joke.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. Good! Brad thought. Great! I can see the headline now: MORGANTOWN MYSTERY DISEASE FELLS ALL CHILDREN, BUT TOLL PALES IN COMPARISON WITH BLACK DEATH. CDC OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED!

Chet Williamson

#4. I'm the son of Jupiter!" he shouted, and just for effect, he summoned the winds, rising a few feet off the ground. "I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion.

Rick Riordan

#5. The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Richard Dawkins

#6. The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Alonzo Church

#7. Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.

Michael Cunningham

#8. One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Audrey Hepburn

#10. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.

Cathie Black

#11. Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

Will Shortz

#12. I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

Virginia Woolf

#13. As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Jon Bon Jovi

#14. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Natalie Clifford Barney