That's a very small smattering, I should have warned you. I read books like many women eat chocolate.

Quotes I Quite Enjoy.

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
~Jack London (1876 - 1916)

"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
~Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )

"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."
~Marvin Minsky

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
~Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap."
~Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
~G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
~Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill

"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."
~Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
~Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
~Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)

"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)

"I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned."
~Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05

"We're adults. When did that happen? How do we stop it?"
~Merideth Grey in Grey's Anatomy.

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
~George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
~Winston Churchill, in response

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
~Clarence Darrow

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
~Winston Churchill

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
~Douglas Adams

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then."
~Richard Armour

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
~Howard W. Newton

"Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it."
~Jack Nichols

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
~Woody Allen

"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words."
~Woody Allen

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
~Catherine Aird

" I don't like your manner."
~Lady in the Lake (1947) Audrey Trotter and Robert Montgomery

"Well, isn't this place a geographic oddity - two weeks from everywhere."
~ "O Brother Where Art Thou" (2000)