Womanish Museum Quotes

#1. The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

W.S. Gilbert

#2. It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

Ira Glass

#3. The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Bryant McGill

#4. [When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#6. If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.

Peter R. Orszag

#7. The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands ... It is here about us or it is nowhere.

Allen Tucker

#8. Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

Joan Collins

#9. Life is like an analogy.

Aaron Allston

#10. I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

James Inhofe

#11. At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#12. Constriction causes pain, relaxation causes happiness.

Sean O'Donoghue Morgan

#13. -you can prove that there are exactly as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as between 0 and any other finite number you can think of.

David Foster Wallace

#14. Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

Edwin A. Abbott

#15. There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox