"I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Color Quotes #Ruffles Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.46, Pan Macmillan
“When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.”
“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”
“We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.”
“We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.”
“The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.”
“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”

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