Bastron Glass Quotes & Sayings

Don't take tension, take ninesion — Pankaj Giri

In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant. — Dan Simmons

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. — Germaine Greer

After a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support. — Graham Hill

Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. — Molly Crabapple

They loved in a way that made fairy tales envious. — Brittainy C. Cherry

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. — Yukio Mishima

I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast. — Sendhil Ramamurthy

So prevalent was the belief among Delhiwallahs that Englishmen were the product of an illicit union between apes and the women of Sri Lanka (or alternatively between 'apes and hogs') that the city's leading theologian, Shah Abdul Aziz, had to issue a fatwa expressing his opinion that such a view had no basis in the Koran or the Hadiths, and that however oddly the firangis might behave, they were none the less Christians and thus People of the Book.15 As long as wine and pork were not served, it was therefore perfectly permissible to mix with them (if one should for any strange reason wish to do so) — William Dalrymple

We decided to become development psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence (even if we may occasionally suspect that they are bent on making us their slaves.) — Alison Gopnik

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit. — Ken Kesey

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization. — Oswald Spengler

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Look at you," I teased, walking over to her. "Fearlessly vanquishing Cashew the Deranged Squirrel. — Richelle Mead