Civilization That Flooded Quotes & Sayings

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television. — Kyle Cassie

You can't tell me you haven't noticed the way things are at school. I'm everyone's favorite loser. There isn't anyone more fun to pick on then me. — Cindy C. Bennett

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history. — Chen Guangbiao

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system. — Charles Bukowski

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince. — Stendhal

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes. — Rod Serling

What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time. — Anthony Fauci

Obvious choices for the east window: the two bloody bargains on which civilization claimed to be based. The bargain, Rivers though, looking at Abraham and Isaac. The one on which all patriarchal societies were founded. If you, who are young and strong, will obey me, who am old and weak, even to the extent of being prepared to sacrifice your life, then in the course of time you will peacefully inherit, and be able to exact the same obedience from your sons. Only we're breaking the bargain, Rivers thought. All over northern France, at this very moment, in trenches and dugouts and flooded shell-holes, the inheritors were dying, not one by one, while old men, and women of all ages, gathered together and sang hymns. — Pat Barker

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain. — Richard Gregory

There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other ... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real! — Isaac Hayes

The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary - and that was the press. — Upton Sinclair

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age. — Chris Bell

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said — Cormac McCarthy

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin