Brain Dumps Quotes & Sayings

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through. — Michael Imperioli

This time he shouted a little more loudly, and his heart began to beat a little more quickly. It was foolish, of course. There was no chance she could have got lost here. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. — John Lennon

Salem"

In salem seasick spindrift drifts or skips
to the canvas flapping on the seaward panes
until the knitting sailor stabs at ships
nosing like sheep of Morpheus through his brain's
asylum. Seaman, seaman, how the draft
lashes the oily slick about your head,
beating up whitecaps! Seaman, Charon's raft
dumps its damned goods into the harbor-bed,--
There sewage sickens the rebellious seas.
Remember, seaman, Salem fisherman
Once hung their nimble fleets on the Great Banks.
Where was it that New England bred the men
who quartered the Leviathan's fat flanks
and fought the British Lion to his knees? — Robert Lowell

Because I like to think, I find it difficult to sleep, and because I find it difficult to sleep, I think. — Ciputra

Stop them damn pictures! I don't care what the papers write about me. My constituents can't read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures! — Boss Tweed

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency. — Lysander Spooner

They do not know that by thinking in new directions (which has been called the definition of genius) they can bring new directions into their lives. Most of them are marking time, as if they have a non-cancelable contract with life. How can we rise above our more egregious mistakes if we just mark time! Let's do it better than it's been done before. Let's find our partner in the freest, richest land on earth and do something wonderful with this holiday we've been mysteriously granted. — Earl Nightingale

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. — Hesiod

Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens
and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having
my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle. — Christopher Hitchens

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it. — Marilyn Monroe

Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them — Sunday Adelaja