Brookmere Pasadena Quotes & Sayings

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering. — Douglas MacArthur

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. — Immanuel Kant

It's not the way we do it on planet Earth, certainly. — Hugh Laurie

Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector? — Josh Lanyon

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. — Blaise Pascal

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics. — Ben Zobrist

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like. — Paul Rudnick

Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that the poet must develop or procure the consciousness of the past and that he should continue to develop this consciousness throughout his career. 8
What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. 9
There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition. It is in this depersonalization that art may be said to approach the condition of science. — T. S. Eliot

London was a graveyard haunted by dead faiths. A city and a landscape. A market laid on feudalisms. Gathering and hunting, little pockets of alterity, too, but most of all in the level Billy had come to live in a tilework of fiefdoms, theocratic duchies, zones and spheres of influences, over each of which some local despot, some criminal pope, sat watch. It was all who-knew-whom, gave access to what, greased which palms on what route to where. — China Mieville

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me. — Kid Cudi