meggilyweggily’s Tagged Quotes

When Barack Obama was giving his speech after being elected as president, he had to do it behind three inch thick bullet-proof glass.

I thought that was a bit harsh - just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anyone.

It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

A drug is neither moral nor immoral--it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.