Phrases I like

These are just random phrases I’ve heard people say or seen written in blogs/messages, etc.

  • …the inbetween time…
  • I live in my own little world but it’s OK, everyone knows me here.
  • “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
    ~Abraham Lincoln
  • “And I think, Steam of their piss.  I’ll keep that for myself.  I’ll go around Limerick saying it, Steam of their piss, Steam of their piss, and when I go to America some day I’ll be the only one who knows it.”
    ~Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
  • “…my uncle Pa Keating, he doesn’t give a fiddler’s fart what the world says and that’s the way I’d like to be myself.”
    ~Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
  • “You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
    ~Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
  • “It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
    ~Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
  • “I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed?
    He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?”
    ~Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
  • “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
    ~Mark Twain
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