Pat Sanders > Pat's Quotes

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
― James Thurber

“The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.”
― Woody Allen

“To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
― Woody Allen

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
― Woody Allen

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
― fran lebowitz

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

“I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“polite conversation is rarely either”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

“When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest