Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio...

David Foster Wallace

...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch...

Don Kardong

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Don Herold

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Don Herold

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

Doug Stanhope

I'm not a marijuana user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.

Donald Hall

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Don Watson

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Don Winslow

The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.

Don Tapscott

Your network is your filter.

Dale Carnegie

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Coolio

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

e. e. cummings

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

E. B. White

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Anais Nin

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Ann Beattie

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Andrew Weil

As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

Chuck Palahniuk

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

Christy Turlington

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Christy Turlington

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

Christopher Morley

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Anne Stevenson

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Tyler

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Anna May Wong

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Amy Grant

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

Anne Sexton

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.