Peggy Noonan Quotes

I love watching the fishermen step off their boats and lay out their catch - typically sardines, monkfish and everything you'd find in bouillabaisse.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said, "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?" Does a fish have a watertight asshole?" said Coyote.