I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Liam Gallagher

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Kurt Vonnegut

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Josh Billings

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Source Unknown

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Jimi Hendrix

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Luigi Barzini

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Angela Carter

The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile

Treasure Stitches

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

A. J. Liebling

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Srully Blotnick

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev