Top 12 Underlivsplager Quotes
#1. He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.
Carson McCullers
#2. Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
Benmont Tench
#3. I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.
P.G. Wodehouse
#4. If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#5. I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.
Christopher Hitchens
#6. Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.
Margaret Atwood
#8. Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
Phillip E. Johnson
#9. It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.
John Chadwick
#10. The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.
Edward Gibbon
#11. Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
John Heider
#12. At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.
Jonathan Safran Foer