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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep
888 people liked it

"He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely."
— Flannery O'Connor (The Complete Stories)

tags: funny, parkers-back
29 people liked it

"The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree."
— Flannery O'Connor (The Complete Stories)

tags: funny, parkers-back
24 people liked it

"Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane"
— Rachel Caine (Glass Houses)

tags: funny, morganvillevampires
219 people liked it

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, friends, humor, vegetarianism
558 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,421 people liked it

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: books, criticism, humor, wit
397 people liked it

"Never judge a book by its movie. "
— J. W. Eagan

3 people liked it

"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

1 person liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
666 people liked it

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: crime, funny, humour, neighborhoods
553 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,981 people liked it

"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
— Jon Stewart

tags: canada, funny
203 people liked it

"I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character."
— Jon Stewart

tags: funny
75 people liked it

"And sometimes I get distr- OH LOOK A RUBBER DUCKY!"
— Regan Jameson

1 person liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,423 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,762 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,794 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,169 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. "
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor
2 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,207 people liked it

"I’m not afraid to stand out
Because if no one does
We’d all just be standing in a line.
"
— Rubber Duck

1 person liked it

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
— Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters)

tags: truth
33 people liked it

"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: writing
37 people liked it

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing
376 people liked it

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
— Flannery O'Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose)

tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
97 people liked it

"You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: cockroach
11 people liked it

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