"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Apology Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Society Quotes

“You should treat a muse like a fairy.”
“I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.”
“If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.”
“How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.”
“This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.”
“In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.”
“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Source : Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

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