Unfanciful Quotes

#1. It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

Gerhard Schroder

#2. We Pisces, we're a special breed.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'
and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Chris Cuomo

#5. Remember that codes are more than a filing system. Every project needs a systematic way to store coded field data and a way to retrieve them easily during analysis.

Matthew B. Miles

#6. Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

Ian Botham

#7. You got secrets you better keep
Take flight before she cuts you deep
- Sam's song

Helen Boswell

#8. Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.

Lynne Eisaguirre

#9. I don't think you understand," he said. "I'm going to have you, at any cost. Any cost, Jenny, even if you have to suffer on the way. If I can't force you, I'll persuade you - and I can be very persuasive.

L.J.Smith

#10. The Boy Who Lived. How many people have to die for the Boy Who Lived?

J.K. Rowling

#11. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Martin Freeman

#12. As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

A.B. Simpson

#13. What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.

Philip K. Dick

#14. Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo