A series of shorts:
“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy!” ~ Nora Ephron
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it!” ~ Mark Twain
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!" - Ernest Hemmingway
“Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations!” ~ Martin Terman
"The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas." ~ Tom Robbins
"I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me." ~ Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
"You ever notice that hardly anything besides the "Star-Spangled Banner" is spangled? There's no, the Raisin-Spangled Scone, or the Flea-Spangled Beagle." ~ Christopher Moore
"...who, if he'd been a flavor of ice cream, would have been Gay Linebacker Crunch...Rivera's flavor was Low-fat Spanish Cynic in an Armani Cone..." ~ Christopher Moore
Ezra Pound on James Joyce in 1923: "nothing short of a divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization"
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ~ Anais Nin
“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places!” ~ Mark Twain
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning!" ~ Calvin & Hobbes
I think Nora Ephron is quite brilliant! She must be the queen of one-liners.
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