Robert > Robert's Quotes

“Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.”
― Paavo Haavikko

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“The story so far:
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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

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

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Tomorrow is promised to no one.”
― Clint Eastwood

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
― George Burns

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
― steve martin

“And what will be their fate?” he asked. “Forgive me master, but I am curious to know, so that my heart may prepare itself.”

“Flesh without spirit,” I said. “Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.”
― Mika Waltari , The Dark Angel

“It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean. ”
― Luther Burbank

“I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.”
― Richard Wagner

“. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
― Glen Cook

“I will not walk backward in life.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Reave the Just and Other Tales

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.”
― Candace Bushnell

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest