Batailles Des Quotes & Sayings

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked. — Joy Harjo

The mechanical clock," as Lewis Mumford wrote, "made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product." In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible.4 The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money. In the eternal struggle between God and Mammon, the clock quite unpredictably favored the latter. Unforeseen consequences stand in the way of all those who think they see clearly the direction in which a new technology will take us. — Neil Postman

I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it. — Craig Raine

I'd give her up for you," I tell her, staring at her relentlessly until she's forced to meet my eyes again, if just for a second. "I'd give up everything for you. — Karina Halle

One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble. — Kate Sanborn

God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer. — Gerard De Marigny

Maybe the hardened clay was not as ugly as I had thought. Maybe what I resented was the color my father had painted me. The time had come to sand away some of that dreadful stain. — Zohreh Ghahremani

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. — John James Audubon

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way. — Tracy McMillan

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis. — Jim Butcher

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out. — A.A. Milne

I'm really interested in fashion journalism. — Mark Indelicato

Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery

Commissioning a study of a thousand pages may jeopardize a certain project efficiently. — Eraldo Banovac

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me. — Sarah Kane