talladega nights quotes

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp



It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne



America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud



A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~Carl Sagan



The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ~Doris Day



I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Be thrifty, but not covetous. ~George Herbert



Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~Madame Swetchine



Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. ~Montaigne



One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. ~Jared Sandberg



One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb



The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ~John Stuart Mill



Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ~Dorothy Day



The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ~William Feather



The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown



We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~Proverb



Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. ~Grantland Rice



The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. ~Ashley Montague



If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. ~James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861