Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

If you would rise, do so alone.

Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.