Famous quotes containing the word lots:
“The test of an adventure is that when youre in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now Ive got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that somethings wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)
“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truths sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other thingsamass sacrifice, at truths altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. Fables at Lifes Expense, Where Does Truth Lie, Latitudes Press (1975)
“To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)