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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
- I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
- If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
- There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Women should be obscene and not heard.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
- Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
- I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
- J. H. Holmes
- It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
- I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
- Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
- It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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