Quip Quotes

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Well, I can hardly lick champagne off your dazzling personality, now can I?

Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone with him—”Ari: ”Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, Thad. Very romantic. Oh, and we also hid a body together, so we're practically engaged.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

Cassandra Clare