Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. — Chuck Nevitt Copy Share Image
In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. — Hyder Akbar Copy Share Image
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car.… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay Copy Share Image
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
