3801) "We are better for the fire, the anvil, and the hammer with which our enemies have been good enough to work upon us."-Charles Spurgeon
3802) "The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination."-Charles Spurgeon
3803) "What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self."-Charles Spurgeon
3804) "I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?"-Catullus
3805) "Dan, like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank."-Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
3806) "Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body."-Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
3807) "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."-Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
3808) "You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money."-Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
3809) "I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?"-Jodie Foster
3810) "I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."-Maya Angelou
3811) "i remember the first time i saw someone/ lying on the cold street/ i thought: i can't just walk past here/ this can't just be true/ but i learned by example/ to just keep moving my feet/ it's amazing the things that we all learn to do"-Ani DiFranco, "Subdivision"
3812) "[Men] disappear because the grass is always greener on the other side: they worry about what they're missing. Because they don't want to belong to a club that would have them as members. Because when the chase is over, there is no challenge, and when there is no challenge, there is no point. Because it's exhausting to worry — and care — about someone else all the time. Because commitment and intimacy can feel like the death of independence and freedom. Because there are things they give up in order to gain a relationship, and sometimes they think they're giving up more than they're getting. Because you've got issues they don't want to deal with. Because you've got issues even you don't want to deal with. Because they've got issues. Period. Because sometimes the expectation exceeds the reality. Because they've told all their good stories and have nothing interesting left to say. Because you fart in your sleep, chew with your mouth open or like the band that sings the theme song to 'Friends.' Because they don't know what they've got till it's gone. Because love is scary. The same goes for women."-Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, "The Em and Lo Down"
3813) "When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing."-Yip Harburg, songwriter
3814) "The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies. I wonder if our current cultural susceptibility to the charms of materialism -- our increasing willingness to see psychology as chemical, identity as genetic, and behavior as the product of bygone exigencies of human evolution -- isn't intimately related to the post modern resurgence of the oral to the written: our incessant telephoning, our ephemeral e-mailing, our steadfast devotion to the flickering tube."-Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker
3815) "I get a lot of mail from disabled/ugly/fat/old people complaining about shallow able-bodied/pretty/thin/young people who refuse to date them. 'Why can't able-bodied/pretty/thin/young people appreciate me for how beautiful I am on the inside?' they write. 'You should scold the able-bodied/pretty/thin/young for being so hurtful and shallow!' When I suggest to these folks that they might have better luck dating other people who are disabled/ugly/fat/old, they invariably respond, 'But I'm only attracted to people who are able-bodied/pretty/thin/young!' What this means, of course, is that the disgruntled disabled/ugly/fat/old who write me are every bit as shallow as the able-bodied/pretty/thin/young they're complaining about. CripBabe says she prefers 'able-bodied partners who don't drool,' and disabled Mark writes that he takes comfort when he sees 'people with disabilities who are in happy, healthy relationships with able-bodied partners.' I'm not saying that CripBabe or Mark is shallow--God forbid--I'm only pointing out that disabled people (like fat people, old people, ugly people) have the same cultural biases as the rest of us. People who want others to 'see the beauty within' should, as a matter of principle, take off their own blinders."-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
3816) "So my friend was dating this girl for a while. He was pretty into her, but then she left him for another guy. Eventually, the girl ended up marrying this new guy. My friend was pretty bummed. I think the fact that she ended up marrying this guy should have cheered him up. It's kind of like if the Knicks lose in the playoffs, but the team that beat them ends up going on to win the championship. At least you lost to the best, you know?"-Aaron Karo
3817) "Ever notice that you can only be a porn 'star'? There are no porn extras or porn supporting actors. You're either a porn star or you're not in porn at all. Sounds like a great industry to me!"-Aaron Karo
3818) "Jesus was way cool. Everybody liked Jesus. Everybody wanted to hang out with him. Anything he wanted to do, he did. He turned water into wine, and if he had wanted to, he could have turned wheat into marijuana, sugar into cocaine, or vitamin pills into amphetamines. He walked on the water and swam on the land. He would tell these stories and people would listen. He was really cool. If you were blind, or lame, you just went to Jesus and he would put his hands on you and you would be healed. That's so cool. He could have played guitar better than Hendrix. He could have told the future. He could have baked the most delicious cake in the world. He could have scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky. He could have danced better than Baryshnikov. Jesus would have been funnier than any comedian you can think of. Jesus told people to eat his body and drink his blood. That's so cool. Jesus was so cool. But then some people got jealous of how cool he was, so they killed him. But then he rose from the dead! He rose from the dead, did a little dance, and went up to heaven. I mean, that's so cool. No wonder there are so many Christians."-John S. Hall, "Jesus Was Way Cool"
3819) "Take stuff from work. It's the best way to feel better about your job. Never buy pens or pencils or paper. Take 'em from work. Rubber bands, paper clips, memo pads, folders - take 'em from work. It's the best way to feel better about your low pay and appalling working conditions. Take an ashtray--they got plenty. Take coat hangers. Take a--take a trash can. Why buy a file cabinet? Why buy a phone? Why buy a personal computer or word processor? Take 'em from work. I took a whole desk from the last place I worked. They never noticed and it looks great in my apartment. Take an electric pencil sharpener. Take a case of white-out; you might need it one day. It's your duty as an oppressed worker to steal from your exploiters. Take stuff from work. And fuck off on the company time. I wrote this at work. They're paying me to write about stuff I steal from them. Life is good."-John S. Hall, "Take Stuff From Work"
3820) "I knew I was ready to leave college when I realized I hated a cappella music."-Erica Swenson
3821) "A story is told of a Jewish man who was riding on the subway reading a Nazi newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached the newspaper reader: 'Moshe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading a Nazi newspaper?' Moshe replied: 'I used to read the Jewish newspapers, but what did I find? Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation and intermarriage, Jews living in poverty. So I switched to the Nazi newspaper. Now what do I find? Jews own all the banks, Jews control the media, Jews rule the world. The news is so much better!'"-Marc Angel, "The Mystery of Jewish Optimism: 5,000 years of tsuris and we're still smiling?"
3822) "A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK."-Dr. Michael Newdow
3823) "Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully."-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
3824) "If [our client's marketing department] can't be competent, they should at least be good liars."-Anonymous Project Manager
3825) "One of my number one pet peeves: waiters who make you feel bad about ordering tap water. A typical conversation-- Waiter: 'Would you care for an overpriced bottle of sparkling water?' Me: 'Uh...no thanks, regular water is fine.' Waiter: 'Oh, so just plain tap water? From the sink in the bathroom in the back? Of course sir, right away sir, I'll be back in a moment with two dirty glasses.'"-Aaron Karo
3825) "Another thing I hate--garbage cans with a swinging lid at fast food restaurants. Am I the only the one who has a problem with this? Basically, you have two options. You can either attempt to push the lid in using your tray while at the same time making sure your Dr. Pepper and half-eaten burger don't spill all over the place, or you can actually touch that swinging lid of filth to keep it open while you drop your garbage in. Either way you're fucked in my book."-Aaron Karo
3826) "When you are at a restaurant and someone asks the waiter, 'So, are the clams any good?' don't you just want, for one time in your life, the waiter to say, 'Ma'am, I have to be honest, the clams here suck.' I think that would make me really happy."-Aaron Karo
3827) "The other day I made a Saturday appointment for my regular checkup at the doctor. The receptionist said that I could not eat before I went to the doctor because it might affect my blood tests. She kept insisting that since I had to fast beforehand, I had to have a really early appointment, like 9am, otherwise I would get too hungry. I'm like, listen lady, make my appointment at two in the afternoon, I sleep until 1:30 anyway!"-Aaron Karo
3828) "A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition."-Aaron Karo
3829) "[Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?"-Lara Flynn Boyle, Jane
3830) "Once you’re a part of rightness you know it, and it colors every experience you have thereafter. Rightness is hard to describe, difficult to define, tough to talk about and even rarer to capture."-Sherri Coale
3831) "It's kinda silly/ How something as big as New York City/ Can be invisible when you're staring at your feet/ And it's kinda scary/ How much you mean and yet how rarely/ I say I love you when we speak"-Sam Shaber, "Eldorado"
3832) "It's okay to be mean secretly. Publishing that meanness is just over the top."-Adrian Majid
3833) "Don't make a mistake about what is happening here today. The fact that you are about to get a diploma from one of America's finest institutions of higher learning does not mean you are educated. Some of the dumbest people I know have degrees from some of America's greatest institutions of higher learning. They took their diploma in hot little hand, and proceeded to never read another book, entertain another fresh or new idea, and, most tragically for their society and country, never again paid attention to much of anything other than themselves, to much of anything that was happening around them, or to others. Please, please do not do that. Leave here today caring about your mind, and your neighborhood, and your government, your country, and your world."-Jim Lehrer, University of Pennsylvania graduation, 2002
3834) "The healthy, the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it—whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."-Rona Barrett
3835) "We are dancing through each other as doorways. We are ripples crossing and fusing, journeying and returning."-Marge Piercy
3836) "We can find gentle humor in the most terrible circumstances and tenderness in the darkness."-SARK, Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Pleasure Everywhere and Dancing With the Pits!
3837) "People love to have an eager audience for their stories and adventures. Someone who will listen avidly, and actually ask to see slides."-SARK, Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Pleasure Everywhere and Dancing With the Pits!
3838) "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."-Albert Einstein
3839) "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."-Emily Dickinson
3840) "The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy."-Hunter "Patch" Adams
3841) "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."-Helen Keller
3842) "Get up before dawn to move the car,/ It's a New York thing./ Walk the dog with a Baggie or two,/ It's a New York thing./ Live on an island but not 'The Island,' because/ That's the big one alongside and we're a continent/ It's a New York thing./ Walk with a purpose and avoid eye contact./ Uptown is special, Midtown's for shopping/ And Downtown is sad./ And everywhere people try to ignore the cost/ And laugh at their problems/ And pretend they're not lost in time and space and meaning./ It's a New York thing."-Audrey Klein, "It's a New York Thing"
3843) "profile says dating/ are you shomer negia?/ i touch on my dates"-Ariel Bierbaum
3844) "my first date: jackpot!/ boyfriend now of seven months/ but we met at 'church'"-Jen Tosti
3845) "I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."-Shelley Winters
3846) "It's better to be quotable than to be honest."-Tom Stoppard
3847) "Unrequited love. It's fantastic. 'Cause it never has to change, it never has to grow up, and it never has to die."-Vince on "Queer as Folk"
3848) "...[I] tried to convince myself not to have any expectations. But the thing I hate most about telling myself things is that I never listen."-Lorrie Sprecher, Sister Safety Pin
3849) "bagels every day/ but no pay raise in two years/ funds mismanagement?"-Rachel Jimenez
3850) "Don't let anyone tell you that New York is the city that never sleeps. I've been to New York. It gets tired. It goes to sleep. And who could blame it? New York has to work very hard to produce itself. I'll tell you a secret: New York isn't really New York -- it's the idea of New York. New York is a city about itself. Everyone who's ever moved there -- immigrants, actors, artists -- have all had expectations. They brought their Big Apple fantasies to this spot of land and built a huge, awe-inspiring, mega-notion of a city from the fibers of their own imaginations. A city about itself in a country about itself. And it's really very impressive. But it's also exhausting."-Dan Fishback, The Daily Pennsylvanian
3851) "Anger can in time turn to gladness/ Vexation can be replaced by contentment/ But a kingdom, once destroyed, can never come again into being/ And neither can the dead ever be brought back to life/ Of this the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution/ This is the way to keep a kingdom at peace with its Armies intact."-Sun Tsui, The Art of War
3852) "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."-Alexander Hamilton
3853) "A friend is...a whole lot of wonderful people rolled into one."-Gayle Lawrence
3854) "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
3855) "For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have."-Woody Allen
3856) "This is really a crazy idea, you know. It probably won't work, but that will be interesting, too. You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive. Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death."-Jerry Seinfeld, The New York Times
3857) "The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature."-Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
3858) "Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life--that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
3859) "Why do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself: 'Go to! Here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' Or 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' Or, 'This financier, who controls the world's money markets?'"-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
3860) "The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
3861) "She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
3862) "Life is short, but desire, desire is long."-Jane Hirshfield, Heat
3863) "The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?"-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3864) "They must give college kids the phone numbers of people who didn't pay their bills and had their service shut off a week earlier, because I get more wrong numbers than right ones. But I just don't get why people who have the wrong number continually leave messages on my answering machine. The message clearly states, 'Hey, this is Karo, I'm not here right now...' Yet every week I get at least one message like, 'Hi, this message is for Leroy, your car is ready to be picked up...'"-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3865) "Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent a movie. You're in the video store and finally pick one out and your friend says, 'Oh, don't get that, it was on TV last week.' I hate when people say that. Who cares? Is it on TV right now? No? Good, then let's rent it."-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3866) "Why do girls who deactivate from their sorority act like they were never in a sorority to begin with? I'll be like, 'Oh, hey, Jen, I just saw some of your pledges.' And she'll say, 'I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not in a sorority.' Dammit, you know what I mean! Just remember, girls, once a sorority chick, always a sorority chick. There's no going back!"-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3867) "Why do people insist on sending me the dumbest email forwards? Just when I think that I've seen them all, one of my friends sends another one. Sometimes it's a good-luck tiger or a magical turtle. Other times it's one of the biggest hoaxes ever, like Bill Gates is giving away money or some dude in Texas needs a liver. And people actually believe they're true! My friend comes running into my room saying that he got a chain letter and if he doesn't send it on to ten people, something terrible will happen. I'm like, 'Sorry, dude, but something terrible has already happened to you—you're a gullible idiot!'"-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3868) "I kind of feel bad for people who go to colleges that no one has ever heard of. I sort of have that problem because when I say I go to Penn, people are always like, 'Penn State? Good football team, huh?' And I'm like, 'No, the University of Pennsylvania, you idiot.' We actually have shirts at the bookstore that have the Penn logo, and on top it says NOT PENN STATE. Anyway, whenever I ask someone where they go and they say some random college like, oh, South Rockford University, I never know what to say. I'm always like, 'Oh...good old South Rockford. Good football team, huh?'"-Aaron Karo, Ruminations on College Life
3869) "Why does everything start at 7[PM] or earlier in [New York City]? Where do we live, if not the city that never sleeps?!"-Jen Tosti
3870) "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."-Woody Allen
3871) "On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down."-Woody Allen
3872) "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."-Woody Allen
3873) "I arise every morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy it."-E. B. White
3874) "People have to calm down. When you're in a crowded subway and you pull into a stop, don't people start to freak out and push to get out of the doors in time? Have you ever actually seen someone not make it out? No. Same with elevators. Ever see someone get into an elevator and then realize it's going up but they wanted to go down? They have a fucking panic attack. Chill out dude, I don't think the elevator is going very far."-Aaron Karo
3875) "The other day I tried to call a friend's cell phone. A recording told me that all circuits were busy. ALL circuits? You're telling me that ALL circuits are busy? Every single, last circuit? You know how many circuits there are? That seems a little fishy to me."-Aaron Karo
3876) "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh."-W. H. Auden
3877) "For a long time he just looked at her. That alone made him so happy, he was afraid to try anything else. Maybe it would be better to hold her winglike shadow safe in the lock of his memory than to touch the breathing girl and lose her."-Mary Gaitskill, "Daisy's Valentine"
3878) "You know you've made it when you find yourself in the same nightspot as your own masturbatory fodder."-Amy Sohn, "Female Trouble"
3879) "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness./ For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people./ For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry./ For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day./ For poise walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone./ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, and revived./ Remember that if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms./ As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others."-Audrey Hepburn, "Beauty"
3880) "Writing is a lot like sex. At first you do it because you like it. Then you find yourself doing it for a few close friends and people you like. But if you're any good at all...you end up doing it for money."
3881) "Rip Van Winkle awakes from his long nap only to hear talk about Walter Mondale running for the Senate and that Bush is still the president. 'Haven't missed a thing,' says Rip and goes back to sleep."-Mark Russell, piano-playing satirist
3882) "Jerry: She's good looking. George: How good looking? Jerry: Very good looking. George: Really good looking? Jerry: Really very good looking. George: Would you take her out? Jerry: Yes, I would take her out. George: Oh, you hesitated. Jerry: What hesitate? I didn't hesitate! George: No, something's off here, you hesitated. Jerry: I'm telling you, she's good looking. George: What about the body, what kind of body? Jerry: Good body, nice body. George: How nice? Jerry: Nice. George: Just nice? Jerry: Pretty nice. George: Really good? Jerry: Really very nice and good. George: What about personality? Jerry: Good personality. Funny. Bright. George: Smarter than me? I don't want anyone smarter than me. Jerry: How could she be smarter than you? George: What kind of hair? Jerry: You know, long dark hair. George: Flowing? Jerry: Flowing? George: Is it flowing? I like flowing, cascading hair. Thick lustrous hair is very important to me. Jerry: 'Thick lustrous hair is very important to me,' is that what you said? George: Yeah, that's right. Jerry: Just clarifying. George: Let me ask you this. If you stick your hand in the hair is it easy to get it out? Jerry: Do you want to be able to get it out or do you want to not be able to get it out? George: I'd like to be able to get it out. Jerry: I think you'll get it out. George: What about the skin? I need a good cheek, I like a good cheek. Jerry: She's got a fine cheek. George: Is there a pinkish hue? Jerry: A pinkish hue? George: Yes, a rosy glow. Jerry: There's a hue. She's got great eyebrows, women kill to have her eyebrows. George: Who cares about eyebrows? Is she sweet? I like sweet. But not too sweet, you could throw up from that. Jerry: I don't think you'll throw up."-Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza on "Seinfeld"
3883) "Will my love diminish, if I understand your mystery?"-Anne Heaton, "Melancholy"
3884) "The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone."-Justice D. Louis Brandeis
3885) "What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place."-Aaron Karo
3886) "Do you have friends that live with people that you are not friends with? When you call their apartment phone you hope the roommate doesn't pick up because then you are forced to have an awkward conversation about what you are doing that night even though they're not coming out with you and ask stupid questions about their day even though you don't really care and it's five minutes of your life that you will never get back and next time you think you'll just call your friend's cell phone."-Aaron Karo
3887) "Can stores please make their automatic doors open up when you're a little bit farther away so I don't have to do that awkward pause right in front of the doorway because the doors haven't opened yet and I'm only two inches away and starting to think the door is broken? That or put some handles on those mother fuckers."-Aaron Karo
3888) "How come the more reckless, dangerous and unpredictable the vehicle, the less likely I am to wear a seat belt? Driving in the suburbs in a Volvo? I'm all buckled up, safe and secure. Careening school bus? Maniacal taxi? No thanks, I'll just hold on real tight while you speed and swerve. What the fuck is wrong with me?"-Aaron Karo
3889) "I was really lonely when I first came [to New York City]. It's difficult overcoming the distance between you and other people—it's very intimidating. One thing that struck me, though, was that when you're on the subway, there's this intimacy, but everyone has to adopt an indifference because you can't acknowledge that you're physically as close as a lover. The city is that packed, and yet people act like they don't feel that you're close to them. I felt that was frightening and hard to overcome."-Karen Sorensen
3890) "A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."-George Bernard Shaw
3891) "It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another."-Michael Cunningham, The Hours
3892) "Still, she loves the world for being rude and indestructible, and she knows other people must love it too, poor as well as rich, though no one speaks specifically of the reasons. Why else do we struggle to go on living, no matter how complicated, no matter how harmed?"-Michael Cunningham, The Hours
3893) "We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep—it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so."-Michael Cunningham, The Hours
3894) "In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
3895) "The truth is, that hooking up can be likened to one long, all-you-can-eat buffet line -- you take a little of everything and hope that for your $14.95 at least something is good."-Natalie Krinsky, Yale Daily News
3896) "While I was [in the UK], I learned lots of new word usages that I love...my favorite being 'cheers!' For example, I would sell a CD to someone, and they would say 'cheers!' It just made me glow all over. Or I would pass someone a glass of water and they would say 'cheers.' How great is that? How could you ever be in a bad mood when a word like 'cheers' is constantly being bandied about? You just couldn't."-Edie Carey
3897) "In recent years, Christmas has become more and more commercialized. The same holds true for Chanukah, even though it is a minor holiday. It makes sense. How could we market a major holiday such as Yom Kippur? Forget about celebrating. Think observing. Come to synagogue, starve yourself for 27 hours, become one with your dehydrated soul, beat your chest, confess your sins, a guaranteed good time for you and your family. Tickets a mere $200 per person."
3898) "Tina Fey: As a mother of two, which I am not, I worry about the lack of positive role models for today's young girls. For example, Britney Spears caused controversy last month when she wore this skimpy outfit at MTV's Video Music Awards. Critics called the outfit inappropriate and say it's just another example of Hollywood sexualizing young girls. But I say, ladies, give it up. Britney looks good. Look at that ass. That is a cherry bomb. You gotta look at that thing through a hole in a paper plate. Britney, in about five years that whole area is gonna blow, so enjoy it now. Have it photographed as much as possible. Rub it with fine oils and liniments. You will miss it when it's gone. And, as for whether or not those are breast implants are not... Britney was on our show last year, I worked with her, and, to me, her breasts felt completely real. Jimmy Fallon: What did you say? You said they 'felt real'? Tina Fey: No I didn't."-Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon on "Saturday Night Live"
3899) "People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? 'Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.'"-Aaron Karo
3900) "I think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back."-Aaron Karo