Twin Peaks Shelly Johnson Quotes

#1. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

Thomas Szasz

#2. The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

John Oliver

#3. As individuals, we are all just a life in a day of Wednesday.

Gillibran Brown

#4. When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Martin Villeneuve

#5. To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

Philip Johnson

#6. Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

James M. Barrie

#7. I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Lester B. Pearson

#9. The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

Dahlia Lithwick

#10. How do you listen to this shit? It sounds like two cat's screwing in a trashcan.

Colleen Masters

#11. They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

Peter D. Schiff

#12. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Cleave

#13. I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

G.H. Hardy

#14. Ome things were better, some were worse, and the only way one can ever learn to understand one's own youth is by accepting both halves of the proposition.

Nick Hornby

#15. I am not in the market to create jobs, build an
empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful
economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.

Ziad K. Abdelnour