Some Assembly Required Quotes

#1. The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

John Leo

#2. All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".

Dave Barry

#3. In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.

Karen Lord

#4. I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#5. My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

Ray Romano

#6. Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.

John Steinbeck

#7. [ ... ] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

Mohsin Hamid

#8. But oh how many Caesars I have been!

Fernando Pessoa

#9. His final touches completed, His Highness offers me his arm. On Wednesdays I'm now required to enter the grand assembly in the Hall of Mirrors on his arm like a glowing trophy. Not the kind of trophy one wins for completing a challenge, the kind one stuffs and hangs on the wall after killing it.

Aprilynne Pike

#10. I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.

Warren Ellis

#11. As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Paul Krassner

#12. This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.

Rumi

#13. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

Neal Boortz

#14. There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

Peter Doig

#15. Your every emotion goes right over the top with a big audience. It's either laughter or tears, with no in-between. Those tigers in zoos, they must have a big opera all the time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Walter Benjamin

#18. Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#19. It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

John Owen

#20. I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Erlend Loe

#21. Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.

Neale Donald Walsch