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witty opposites long
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. Umberto Eco
witty sex good-things
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it. Truman Capote
witty silence ornaments
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. Virginia Woolf
witty humorous heart
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. Woody Allen
witty humorous thinking
What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.
witty humorous ideas
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
witty self-esteem humorous
Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.
witty fool
A fool and his words are soon parted. William Shenstone
witty years ideas
I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. Rebecca De Mornay
atheist criterion success
It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right Robert Lewis
atheist became hated seemed time
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. Julia Sweeney
atheist drama struggle
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard P. Feynman
atheist philosophy atheism
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan
atheist understanding religion
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
atheist powerful islands
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
atheist atheism bother
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
atheist reading men
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
atheist thinking self
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.
memorable character long
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. Rob Sheffield
memorable squares years
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. William Kunstler
memorable airports perfection
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura. William Faulkner
memorable ideas people
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people. Robin Williams
memorable airports wife
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
memorable possessed possessing
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale
memorable thinking people
Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure. Robert Orben
memorable sea wife
The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives) Rod Stewart
memorable thinking names
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started? Zsa Zsa Gabor