laura’s Loved Quotes

Snakes. They're like bits of rope, only angrier.

It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love -- it's being unhappy together.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Life must be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.

I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it’ll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't dare stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Where there's tea there's hope.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no hoss sing a song.