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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
- Denise Levertov
- I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
- Kevin Rose, Diggnation, Our Lip Dub Is Better Than Yours, 2008
- Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
- If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
- Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- Saint Theresa of Jesus
- Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
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