Able Quotes - Page 17

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.

The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.