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You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.
-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
-- Mary Little
"I do sound like the Little Mermaid on acid."
-- Tori Amos (Newsweek, 1996)
I'm tired of being this pristine little socially acceptable monstrosity
A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but a little carnal knowledge rules.
-- Wade Kwon
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
-- J. P. McEvoy
Little Johnny was a scientist.
Little Johnny is no more.
For what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker
They came. They saw. They did a little shopping.
(Graffiti on the Berlin Wall shortly after it opened)
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little order, will lose both, and deserve neither."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir.'
-- Joan Rivers
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-- Oscar Wilde
"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
-- Dorothy Parker
The next time you feel like downloading 'The Little Engine That Could' into a weapon of mass destruction: Don't.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

-- Mark Twain
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill
"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
-- Tori Amos
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
-- H. H. Munro (Saki)
I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.
-- Zaffel
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker
"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"
-- Dante Alighieri
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
-- Mark Twain
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker ('Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928)
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated -- and a little drunk.
-- Alben W. Barkley
I love you, you love me,
With a little fricassee
And some mustard and ketchup smeared all over you,
Can't I have you for lunch too?
"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
-- Mark Twain
"If you weren't Cindy Crawford, you didn`t get to ride in the little cart. I saw them take her off on a little cart, and I thought, 'I'm in the wrong profession!'"
-- Tori Amos (Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1992)
Life is a trap for logicians; it looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is. Its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
-- G.K Chesterton
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
"Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless."
-- Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes video)
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
-- Clive Barker
I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.
-- Lester Burnham (American Beauty)
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker
"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children."
-- Mark Twain
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
-- Deepak Chopra
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
-- Mark Twain
"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
-- Mark Twain
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
-- Dorothy Parker (Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item")
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
-- Mark Twain
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
-- Mark Twain
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with RAISINS in it.
-- Dorothy Parker
"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck."
-- Tori Amos
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker
"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, 'I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked.'"
-- Jerry Seinfeld
It wouldn't matter a jot if Christina Aguilera claimed she loved Garbage. I'd still think she was a horrid little squirt.
-- Shirley Manson
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain
"Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it wont be allowed."
-- Mark Twain
"Improvised be damned! I thought of it this morning in my bath and I wish now I hadn't wasted it on this little crowd."
-- Winston Churchill
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."
-- Bernard J. Hibbits
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
-- Mark Twain
"In America--as elsewhere--free speech is confined to the dead."
-- Mark Twain
"People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."
-- Mark Twain
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen
He said "It's all in your head", and I said "So's everything" but he didn't get it /
I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy.
-- Fiona Apple (Paper Bag)
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-- Mark Twain
Fred Astaire: Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

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I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.
-- Tori Amos
"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
-- Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
-- Linda Ellerbee
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
-- John F. Kennedy