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- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
- Hugh Elliott, Bible Versus, 11-27-08
- If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
- Fernand Point
- The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet
- Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
- Charles Fleischer, TED Talk: All things are Moleeds, February 2005
- If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even if you're large enough to often block it.
- Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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