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I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings. — A. J. Jacobs

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that. — Ben Carson

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. — Bernard DeVoto

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. — Bernard DeVoto

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace. — Lionel Suggs

I like every part of growing older except what happens to your feet.
Written by Avis DeVoto to Julia Child in As Always, Julia — Joan Reardon

I can't shake you. — Sina Queyras

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth. — Hark Herald Sarmiento

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. — Bernard DeVoto

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic. — Sharif Khan

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate. — Bernard DeVoto

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved, — Edwin Land

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto) — Joan Reardon

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. — Mike DeWine

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. — Morrie Schwartz.

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! — Rumi

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. — Bernard DeVoto

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains. — Bernard DeVoto

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people. — Bernard DeVoto

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals. — Bernard DeVoto

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. — Anita Roddick

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best. — Bernard DeVoto

Art is man determined to die sane. — Bernard DeVoto

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. — Bernard DeVoto

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. — Bernard DeVoto

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. — Bernard DeVoto

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years, — Dan Savage