Tom Lehrer Quotes

I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

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• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Bank

• I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Believe
  • Percent
  • Voting

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Today

• What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • World
  • Sky
  • Soldier

• Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Sometimes

• Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Wonder
  • Knowing

• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Magic

• The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Live
  • Spirits
  • Mexico City

• You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Horse
  • Battle
  • Lead

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.

  

  Gerald Fischbach
  • Age
  • Child
  • Talking

• I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Lips
  • Dear
  • Ache