What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
#quotes #al-gore #funny #tired #night

Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
#quotes #isaac-watts #poetry

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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