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A.D.D. MOMENT My favorite line is "For your convenience, an 18 percent gratuity has been added to your check." My convenience? Is that really convenient for me? That's about as insincere as "Your call is very important to us.
— Glenn Beck
Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.
— Gloria Steinem
When a stranger comes up to me in the street and tells me that something in life is better because of a movement I'm part of, it is way more satisfying than a fancy house or car.
— Gloria Steinem
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!
— Gordon Hinckley
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
— Mark Twain
The only gift is a portion of thyself.... it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.
— Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
— Mark Twain
The greatest blessedness comes to him, who infuses into his mind the purest and noblest thoughts.
— James Allen
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
— JM Coetzee
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
— William Golding
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
— Mahatma Gandhi