Ameetha Widdershins > Ameetha's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“(“ ‘Sacrifice,’ ” Sylvie said, “is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.”) But,”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.”
― Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright

“When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.”
― Steven Wright

“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
― Steven Wright

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― Steven Wright

“I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.”
― Steven Wright

“I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.”
― Steven Wright

“Did you sleep well?"
"No, I made a couple of mistakes.”
― Steven Wright

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
― Steven Wright

“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?”
― Steven Wright

“How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?”
― Steven Wright

“I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”
― Steven Wright

“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year.
I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.”
― Steven Wright

“I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars.”
― Steven Wright

“If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?”
― Steven Wright

“I installed a skylight in my apartment...The people who live above me are
furious!”
― Steven Wright

“I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.”
― Steven Wright

“Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright