Chancing Your Arm Quotes & Sayings

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly. — Lucy Griffiths

Johnson released a harsh breath. "Well. Guess I'll go on home and see if a ball game is on. See ya." Johnson turned to leave. "The Braves are on tonight," Ronowski called out to Johnson's back. God had to close his mouth, gaping open in surprise. Johnson turned and wasted no time asking the blond beauty if he wanted to watch the game with him. Ronowski flushed when all their attention was focused on him. "Uhm. Sure. I just need to get my stuff. I'll be r-right back," he stammered and walked quickly toward the precinct. God saw Johnson watch Ronowski's ass move as he walked; not taking his eyes off him until he was inside the building. Johnson turned back toward him and waggled his eyebrows. "Well my night is looking brighter." God — A.E. Via

Please take
a picture of this:
a 70-year-old
white whale lurking
within the warm white
whirling water. how did he last?
how did he escape
all the harpoons
for all those years?
why didn't he get beached
along the way
on the dry
shore?
how did he evade so many
schools of hungry
sharks? — Charles Bukowski

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble. — Junot Diaz

Get off your butt and join the Marines! — John Wayne

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing. — Henry Kissinger

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig. — Jostein Gaarder

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas — H.L. Mencken

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves. — Marshall McLuhan

Imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the — John Stuart Mill

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" ... but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage. — Joseph Story

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. — Mike Shinoda