Judith Martin Quotes

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.