"Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you."

-- Mallory Ortberg

#Kids Quotes #Knows Quotes #I Can Quotes

“A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either. ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.”
“My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“[Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.”

Source : "Ashjian not leaving race". Las Vegas Review-Journal, p. 1B., October 1, 2010.
“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
“I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.”
“Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.”
“As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.”
“You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.”

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