Air quotes: the action of using one's fingers to make quotation marks in the air during speech; often used to express some degree of satire, sarcasm, irony, or euphemism.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra
RAM disk is not an installation procedure. ~Author Unknown
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. ~Carl Jung
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker?... Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created." ~Julian the Apostate
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman
The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
If it isn't a baby, then you aren't pregnant, so what are you aborting? ~Author Unknown
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. ~Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992
