"It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Fun Quotes #Loss Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!”
“O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.6, Stanford University Press
“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorumâ€™s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”
“Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.”
“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.”
“You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.”

Source : Interview in "Entertainment Weekly" #422, March 13, 1998.
“The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”
“My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.”

Source : "Star on the rise – Leo Howard Interview". Interview with Sarah Bradbury, www.tribute.ca. August 5, 2009.

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