Binkish Quotes & Sayings

Toby, watch Jaden. I heard he had a bad night and is in the mood for annihilation. End of the world's not on me today, bud. Hey, Takeshi, get your fat butt off me. You're squishing the fox. There is no honor in sacrificing the fox, you ugly hedgehog. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end. — Elizabeth Goudge

When trying to explain the violent path of some Islamists, Western commentators sometimes blame harsh economic conditions, dysfunctional family circumstances, confused identity, the generic alienation of young males, a failure to integrate into the larger society, mental illness, and so on. Some on the Left insist that the real fault lies with the mistakes of American foreign policy.
None of this is convincing. Jihad in the twenty-first century is not a problem of poverty, insufficient education, or any other social precondition. (Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was earning more than $90,000 a year working for a drilling company in British Columbia, where he also reportedly proclaimed his support of the Taliban and joked about suicide bombing vests, with no repercussions.) We must move beyond such facile explanations. The imperative for jihad is embedded in Islam itself. It is a religious obligation. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home. — Salman Rushdie

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy. — Mark Miller

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part. — Stockard Channing

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it. — Joe Manganiello

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song. — Tommy Lee

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers. — Alan Abel

Well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly. — Daniel Topolski

Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. — John Milton