All Quotes By Tag: Paraphrased

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”

“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”

“What’s in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.”

“What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier.”

“Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.”

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

“So many things to see, people to do.”

“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ … The twenty-five percent is for error.”

“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”

“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”