russell peters quotes

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore



Her hair possessed so powerful an animal odor and was so electrically stimulating, that its mere contact with my skin instantaneously made me forget fever, fatigue and pain... and I immediately felt heroic ardor and new strength flowing and surging through my veins. ~"The Garden," Chapter 1



No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ~Author Unknown



The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge



Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. ~Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex, 1986



My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952



The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins



How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck



Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. ~J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade, 1984



A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam



I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. ~Roseanne Barr



Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown



Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein



Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983



The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ~Richard Steele, The Spectator



I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963



The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand



If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener



I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com