Paraphrased Quotes
35 quotes
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
"There is no God and we are his prophets."
"Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."
"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."
"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]"
"Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them."
"What doesn't kill us makes us funnier."
"What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell."
"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."
"We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings."
"[W]hen someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves"
"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.]"
"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"
"I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books."
"The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe"
"Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives."
"When a man plans, a woman laughs."
"Excess makes the heart grow fonder..."
"I came, I saw, I concurred..."
"I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am."
"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."
"I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away."
"I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away."
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
"You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants."
"Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum."
"I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan."And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan."
"Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
"When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian."
"It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most."
"Some are born great, others achieve greatness."