Vainly Def Quotes

#1. I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Phyllis Diller

#2. You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

Gena Showalter

#3. The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

Tariq Ali

#4. As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#5. Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")

Richard Matheson

#6. My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Paul Lynde

#7. A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

Ice-T

#8. We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words:
1. makom = place
2. zman = time
3. lamud = work

Celso Cukierkorn

#9. The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

Joanne Greenberg

#10. The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

Socrates

#11. Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.'
Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Ally Carter

#12. The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

John Kenneth Galbraith

#13. Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

Oli Anderson