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“Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.”
Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.50, The Overlook Press
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“Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.”
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“If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.”
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“Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.”
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“Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.”
Source : R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.”
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“I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.”
Source : "Friday Lightning Round: ObamaCare criticism from Democrats". "Special Report", www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.
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“I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.”
Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com