"I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Funny Quotes #New York Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.”
“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”
“The coolest thing you can become is yourself.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.”
“I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.”
“This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.”
“I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.”

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