Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. ~Mark Twain
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. ~Ornette Coleman
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron
Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. ~Sam Mussabini
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. ~William Ralph Inge
A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet
Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ~Gaston Bachelard
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XII "The Minister�s Vigil"
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~Indira Gandhi
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~Voltaire
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? ~June Jordan
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. ~Virginia Woolf
If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield
