"Life's more amusing than we thought."

--

Source : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Lang

#Funny Life Quotes #Amusing Quotes

“I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the ***** off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.”
“There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.”
“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin
“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”
“If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind”

Source : J.P. Moreland (2014). “Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul”, p.22, Tyndale House
“To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

You may also like:

Charles Perrault
Author
George MacDonald
Author
H. Rider Haggard
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen
Author
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Joseph Jacobs
Critic
Max Muller
Philologist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Walter Scott
Baronet Scott