Ballocks Urban Quotes & Sayings

He was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community. — Jon Krakauer

Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all. — Bear Grylls

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. — Muriel Rukeyser

In C++, reinvention is its own reward. — Erik Naggum

Things aren't always as bad as they seem. — Janet Gurtler

Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth. — Richard Flanagan

Lips. There was something strangely, delicately
indelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself. — Cassandra Clare

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time. — Stockard Channing

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.) — Lara Biyuts

Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed none of its expressive power if some of its verbs leaved their irregular past tense behind and becomed regular. — Guy Deutscher

The current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines. — Kim Stanley Robinson